Region | Lebanon
15 killed in air strikes
At least 15 Lebanese civilians who were fleeing the country have been killed by missile attacks, as the Israeli offensive continues for a fourth day.
- Agencies
- Published: 23:33 May 3, 2009
Beirut: At least 15 Lebanese civilians who were fleeing the country have been killed by Israeli missile attacks.
Israel also launched attacks against Beirut's lighthouse, and the mainly Christian port town of Jounieh on Saturday evening, with reports saying as much as 75 rockets had been fired.
Women and children were among 12 people killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a convoy which was leaving the village of Marwaheen, which runs along the Lebanon/Syrian border.
Residents of the border town claim they had been warned by Israeli forces they had to leave the village, but say they were turned away by Ghanaian UN peacekeepers when they tried to seek refuge.
Three civilians were also killed when a bridge on the Beirut/Damascus highway in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley was attacked.
At least 88 people have died in Lebanon, most of the them civilians, since Israel began attacking the country on Wednesday in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah.
On the Israeli side, 15 people have been killed - four civilians and 11 soldiers, as Hezbollah responded by firing rockets into Israeli territory.
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