CHILDREN RESCUED ALIVE
The strikes left craters up to five-metre wide in Haret Hreik, an AFP photographer said, adding that ambulances were coming from all sides while fires burned.
Firefighters battled the blaze while rescuers rushed to find survivors amid the rubble, some using excavators.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported two children had been pulled out from under the wreckage alive.
Lawyer Houssam al-Jawad, 45, who lives close to the targeted area said the explosions “lasted several seconds and sounded deep and strong, as if it were a successive series of sonic booms”.
The windows and doors in the house shook even though it was located two kilometres from the site of the strike, he said.
