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Jul 16, 2006 6:04 pm US/Eastern

8 Canadians Killed In Israeli Airstrike In Lebanon

Slideshow: War Returns To The Middle East

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A power plant and other facilities were hit in an Israeli attack Saturday.
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Eight members of a Canadian family vacationing in Lebanon were killed Sunday in an Israeli air raid that hit a Lebanese town on the border with Israel, Canadian and Lebanese officials said.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said six other Canadians were in critical condition.

Lebanese security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make statements to the media, said the victims were members of a single family of Lebanese origin and were killed at home in their family's village of Aitaroun, which abuts the border.

TV stations said the family had come from Canada to spend their summer holiday in the town.

MacKay, who was quoted by The Canadian Press, said the government is putting commercial ships in place to evacuate its citizens by sea.

The victims were not identified.

The killings came on the fifth day of an Israeli barrage of Lebanon that began when the Shiite guerrilla group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid. The fighting has killed at least 148 in Lebanon and 23 in Israel.