Beirut, March 9 (SANA) Eleven Syrian workers were injured Sunday evening in an Israeli drone strike near the town of Yohmor al-Shaqif in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Emergency teams from the Lebanese Red Cross, accompanied by a Lebanese Army patrol, carried out a rescue operation lasting several hours to evacuate the wounded from the strike site, the agency said. The injured workers were transported to a hospital in the nearby city of Nabatieh for treatment.
According to NNA, the workers were unloading a shipment of poultry from a pickup truck at a farm when the drone strike occurred. Three of them managed to crawl away from the immediate impact area, while the others remained stranded for more than five hours before rescue teams were able to reach them.
The agency said the evacuation required prior coordination with what it described as a “Mechanism Committee” because of security risks in the area.
The strike came amid a series of Israeli air raids on several Lebanese towns on Sunday that killed 33 people and wounded others.
Nearly 400 people — including 83 children — have been killed and more than 1,100 wounded since the start of the month in Israeli bombardment across Lebanon, following rocket attacks launched by Hezbollah militia on Israeli positions.
