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THREE mortar shells fired from Syria have killed at least one woman near the eastern Lebanese town of Hermel, a bastion of the Hezbollah movement, a security official told AFP.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the shells crashed into Bdaita, on the outskirts of Hermel in the northern Bekaa region.
The area is a stronghold of Hezbollah, the Shi’ite movement whose forces are fighting alongside those of the regime President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s more than two-year-old conflict.
Since the start of the Syria conflict in March 2011, a number of rockets and mortar shells have struck Lebanese territory.
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