(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />The body of Lebanese cameraman shot dead by Syrian soldiers on the Syrian-Lebanese border was taken on Tuesday (April 10) to the TV station where he worked, and then to his house for the start of the funeral procession.<br/> <br />Syrian soldiers shot dead Ali Shaaban, a cameraman working for Lebanon's Al-Jadeed television channel, on Monday (April 9) near the border between the two countries, the television channel said.<br/> <br />It said cameraman Shaaban was on the Lebanese side of the frontier, in the northern Lebanese region of Wadi Khaled, when soldiers opened fire on a car carrying the Al-Jadeed crew.<br/> <br />Syrian state television quoted what it called a "media source" as saying the incident occurred at the same time that Syrian guards at a nearby border post had come under fire from a "terrorist group".<br/> <br />Last month Lebanese residents said Syrian soldiers crossed into Lebanon's Bekaa valley in pursuit of Syrian rebels, and there have been several reports of cross-border shooting or shelling which have wounded people inside Lebanon.<br/> <br />U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he deplores the cross-border shootings from Syria into Turkey and Lebanon ahead of a ceasefire deadline which Syria showed no sign of abiding to.
