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Sat 07 Jul 2006Young and old embark on hellish trek towards safetyLEBANON: The orders spread at dawn, by radio, leaflet and menacing mobile phone text messages: All civilians south of the Litani river should clear out immediately or risk death.Panicked by the evacuation order, families on Thursday started to pack into cars and pour north on a tortuous route of one-lane dirt roads and bomb-pocked highways. Smoke boiled into the sky over the treetops as bombs rumbled in the hills. Jets sliced the sky overhead. As they sped past abandoned cars, they glimpsed corpses seated inside.