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1 killed, 1 injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon

Beirut, Apr 15 (UNI) One person was killed, and another wounded on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike targeting a pick-up truck in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese official media.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that an Israeli drone targeted the village of Aitaroun in the Bint Jbeil District in the central border sector, with three guided missiles, leading to the casualty.
In a separate incident, a hostile drone dropped an explosive device on farmers near a vocational school in the village of Aita al-Shaab, also in the central sector of the border area, the NNA reported without specifying the casualty or damage.
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