Israeli drone fires on Refugee Convoy Fleeing S. Lebanon

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A convoy of vehicles snakes along a road toward the southern village of Marj el-Khokh, near the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, as smoke rises in the town of Jdeidet Marjayoun, background, following an Israeli bombardment. U.N. peacekeepers were dispatched Friday to evacuate about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police detained by Israeli forces in Marjayoun a day after Israeli soldiers swept into the southern Lebanese town, security officials said. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)


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BEIRUT, Lebanon - An Israeli drone fired at a convoy fleeing attacks in southern Lebanon, killing at least one refugee and wounding others, witnesses and hospital officials said.

The state-run National News Agency said at least four people were killed.

The convoy — more than 100 civilian vehicles in addition to vehicles carrying Lebanese soldiers and police — was hit near the town of Chtaura in the Bekaa Valley.

Security officials in the Bekaa said at least nine rockets were fired on the convoy.

Two U.N. peacekeeping armored vehicles led the convoy out of the Israeli-occupied town of Marjayoun; it was not know if they were still with the convoy at the time of the attack.

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