Hail triggers cluster bombs
The season’s first hailstorm in parts of southern Lebanon triggered unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs dropped in last year’s war between Hezbollah militants and Israel. No injuries were reported.
Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the U.N. Mine Action Coordination Center, confirmed a state-run National News Agency report that many cluster bombs exploded when they were hit by hailstones in villages near the town of Marjayoun.
More than 30 people have been killed by cluster bomblets in southern Lebanon since the war. The United Nations and human rights groups accuse Israel of dropping about 4 million cluster bomblets. As many as 1 million failed to explode.
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