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Israeli bombers

kill child, bury

mother, 8 others

NABATIYEH: An Israeli air raid on Thursday wrecked a three-storey house, killing an eight-year-old girl and burying her mother and eight other of her children in rubble, an AFP correspondent reported.

The father from the Abed family was away on a pilgrimage when the Israeli warplanes struck the three-storey building on Thursday morning.

The body of an eight-year-old boy, Ali, had already been pulled out from the debris.

Rescuers were desperately trying to find the mother and her eight other children, police said.-AFP