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20 missiles hit in two minutes
13/08/2006 16:42 - (SA)
Beirut - Israeli warplanes pounded south Beirut with at least 20 missiles in a two-minute period on Sunday, minutes after the Israeli government approved a UN cease-fire plan that was to go into effect 17 hours later.
The missiles slammed into the hard-hit Dahiyeh suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold just south of Beirut, Lebanese television stations said.
The reports said the strike destroyed a complex of eight residential buildings and at least six families were thought to have been in them at the time of the attack. There was a report that the body of a dead child had been recovered from the wreckage, but that could not be independently confirmed.
The television pictures panned across massive damage that appeared to stretch for several hundred meters in all directions.
Fires were burning and rescuers were arriving to check for survivors, although the scope of the damage made it appear unlikely that anyone in the area lived through the air strikes.
- AP
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