Paramedics among 16 people killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon

People search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic centre that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in southern Lebanon late on Wednesday, including paramedics who were preparing to respond to the first strike, the state-run National News Agency said.

That raises the number of people killed by Israeli strikes on Wednesday to 16, after an earlier attack hit a different paramedic centre linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group, killing seven of the group’s members.