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2 killed in Israeli airstrike on Lebanese coastal city of Jounieh

Beirut, Oct 19 (UNI) Two people were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on Jounieh, the first time that the Israeli force targeted the Lebanese coastal city 16 km north of the capital Beirut, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported.
An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle carrying two people on the Jounieh highway in the Keserwan district of Mount Lebanon governorate, according to al-Jadeed local TV channel.
The drone missed the target in its first strike, prompting the passengers, a man and a woman, to leave it and flee towards a nearby forest, but the drone pursued them and resumed the raid, the local channel said, noting that their bodies have been transferred to a local hospital.
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