Beirut, May 26 (Petra) -- Lebanon’s Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that 11 people, including two young girls and a woman, were killed and 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike carried out at dawn on the town of Mashghara in the Western Bekaa region.

In a statement, the ministry said rescue teams were continuing efforts to remove rubble and search for missing persons.

The ministry also reported that a separate Israeli strike targeting the town of Srifa in the Tyre district killed one paramedic and injured two other emergency responders.

//Petra// MF