(BBC NEWS) BEIRUT – State media said 16 people died in the blast in a house used as a bomb factory by “armed terrorist groups’.
The violence comes despite a UN-brokered ceasefire – part of a peace plan proposed by the joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
Following the blast in Hama, activists posted video on the internet showing a scene of devastation, with bodies being pulled from the rubble.