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Infant killed in rocket barrage
11/8/2006 10:06

Hezbollah gunners renewed their rocket attacks on northern Israel on Thursday morning, killing a two-year-old infant girl in an Arab village, local media reported.

Another boy, 4, was seriously wounded when a rocket slammed into their house in the village of Dir el-Asad, near Karmiel.

Rocket alert sirens sounded across northern Israel on Thursday. Some 160 rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday, with 66 landing in the area of Kiryat Shmona. a

In total, some 3,350 rockets have been fired at northern Israel since the war broke out on July 12, leaving dozens of civilians dead.



Xinhua News