Israeli 'spies' executed
2006-07-27 20:27
Larnaca/Beirut - Several suspected spies were shot dead in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre, witness said on Thursday.
Passengers on board an evacuation ship told medical doctor Boris Buck from the German city of Munich that they had seen members of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah group or their sympathisers killing 18 Lebanese people during the night.
The victims were suspected of helping the Israeli air force pick out targets.
The doctor, who was accompanying German citizens on their sea journey from Tyre to Cyprus, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the witnesses had told him the spies had been accused of painting with luminous paint houses in which Hezbollah fighters were hiding out.
There was no immediate official confirmation of this report.
The doctor from Munich, who is now waiting in the Cypriot port of Larnaca, accompanied 27 Germans and 340 people of other nationalities on a boat from Lebanon to Cyprus on Wednesday evening.
"In the latest television pictures, I saw complete blocks of houses that were still standing on Wednesday completely destroyed in the air strikes on Tyre," Buck said.
The Israeli air force bombarded targets in Tyre and in the Nabatiye region on Thursday. - Sapa-dpa
- SAPA