Lebanese man killed handling Israeli cluster bomb
AFP
Date: 10-31-06
BAALBECK, Lebanon (AFP) - A man was killed and two other people injured in eastern Lebanon when part of an Israeli cluster bomb exploded in the man's hands.
Truck driver Hafez Khalil Abbas, 35, had spotted a bomblet outside a school in the Rass el-Ain quarter of Baalbeck. It exploded after he picked it up, killing him instantly and hurting the other two.
Since the end of this summer's Israeli war on the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, some 20 civilians have been killed and dozens wounded by remnants of cluster bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes during the conflict.
The Haaretz daily has reported that Israel dropped at least 1.2 million bomblets during the 34-day conflict.
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