Meanwhile in Douma itself, rebels wrested three positions from regime forces, including an unfinished high-rise building that had been used by regime snipers.
Intense fighting remains in the suburb, with the government claiming repeated bombings by what it terms "militant terrorists" and activists claiming repeated atrocities by government forces.
Mousab Azzawi, of the London-based Syrian Network of Human Rights, claimed members of a pro-Assad militia had started to dump the bodies of up to 200 men who had disappeared from the district of Modamiat al-Sham in the last week on roadsides. There was no independent verification of the claim.
Fighting was also reported yesterday near Maaret al-Numan, a town along the Aleppo-Damascus highway that rebels seized earlier this month.
On Saturday, the second day of the ceasefire, the death toll across the country was estimated at between 91 and 114, including five women and six children, and around 40 of which were in Damascus.
Those figures are lower than those in the worst days of the fighting in the last two months but still give no sign of hope of its being extended or becoming the basis of a longer-term peace settlement, the ambition of Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy who negotiated the truce, the first in six months.
Mr Brahimi is now expected to return for further talks with the UN security council, which voted unanimously to support the ceasefire, but it is not clear what proposals he can make that would persuade either the regime or the rebels to give up what both sides claim is a winning position.
Some of the more radical rebel groups, such as the militant Islamist Jabhat al-Nusra, had rejected the ceasefire out of hand, and these groups are becoming stronger in the fighting.
Jabhat al-Nusra has been accused of being part of a rebel attack on Kurdish and Christian quarters of Aleppo on Thursday, which led to bloody clashes lasting until late on Friday night.
There was more fighting between Kurds and Free Syrian Army units yesterday, including the northern storm brigade which controls the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey, with reports of several dead.
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