edited : six people killed in Israeli convoy attack

[tocqueville]

BEIRUT, Lebanon - An Israeli drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing at least six people and wounding 16, an Associated Press photographer said.

The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident.

Lutfallah Daher, the photographer, was with the convoy when it was hit near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura, about 30 miles north of the Litani River. Israel has said it would attack any vehicle on roads south of the Litani, assuming it was carrying Hezbollah weapons or fighters.

Daher said he counted six bodies that were taken to the morgue at the hospital in Jobb Jannine. There were reports of two more dead, but the photographer could not confirm those deaths.

The photographer said that when the convoy left the Israeli-occupied town of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, it was made up of more than 600 civilian vehicles in addition to vehicles carrying 350 Lebanese soldiers and police. A few vehicles had left the convoy before it was hit, the photographer said.

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Injured Lebanese man Mickael Elhaj, 76, is treated by a paramedic in the Mais Hospital at the town of Zahle in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. An Israeli drone fired Friday at a convoy of more than 100 civilian vehicles as well as vehicles carrying a detachment of 350 Lebanese soldiers and police fleeing the Israeli-occupied town of Marjayoun, killing at least one man and wounding others, witnesses and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

[rodeodance]

1. my gawd. WHO is going to stip this! Why is this allowed to happen?

[ThomCat]

2. Israel says they are "not aware" of that attack.

So that means they'll probably spin this as an accident. :eyes:

[Missy M]

3. They will say it was a 'rogue' drone......

and the drone is acting on its own.