Teen killed and dozens injured in blast during school trip near Israel-Lebanon border
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A teenage boy was killed and at least 19 people were injured Monday when an explosion struck a school group hiking in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, Israeli officials said.
The group included students and staff from a religious high school in Maalot-Tarshiha, according to the city’s municipality. Israeli police said the initial suspicion was that unexploded ordnance caused the blast. The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post reported that the device was a Hezbollah munition, though Defence Minister Israel Katz said the incident remained under investigation.
Initial casualty figures varied. Police cited about 20 injured people, while several Israeli outlets reported 24. The Magen David Adom emergency service said eight people had serious or moderate injuries. Soldiers and helicopters were dispatched to assist, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he was holding assessments and had asked officials to ensure the wounded were evacuated quickly.
Two men were killed in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district on Sunday. Lebanese state media reported that one man was killed when an object left from earlier fighting exploded while he was harvesting olives in Froun. Another was killed by Israeli shelling while inspecting his land and olive harvest near Yater, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. The Lebanese army blamed Israeli tank fire in the Yater incident.
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WHAT THE EDITOR DID
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: Remove the unsupported implied connection between the northern Israel blast and the separate Lebanon deaths. - "The explosion followed two deaths in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district on Sunday.": The sources do not establish that the school-trip explosion followed the deaths in a related sequence; this phrasing implies a connection not reported.
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Teen killed and dozens injured in blast during school trip near Israel-Lebanon border
A teenage boy was killed and at least 19 people were injured Monday when an explosion struck a school group hiking in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, Israeli officials said.
The group included students and staff from a religious high school in Maalot-Tarshiha, according to the city’s municipality. Israeli police said the initial suspicion was that unexploded ordnance caused the blast. The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post reported that the device was a Hezbollah munition, though Defence Minister Israel Katz said the incident remained under investigation.
Initial casualty figures varied. Police cited about 20 injured people, while several Israeli outlets reported 24. The Magen David Adom emergency service said eight people had serious or moderate injuries. Soldiers and helicopters were dispatched to assist, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he was holding assessments and had asked officials to ensure the wounded were evacuated quickly.
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