At least 12 rescuers were killed in an Israeli bombing of a civil defence centre near the Lebanese city of Baalbek on Thursday night, the governor of the region said.

استهداف الدفاع المدني في #دورس pic.twitter.com/SzCsFNBydR

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Bachir Khodr, the head of the Baalbek-Hermel governorate, said teams were continuing to dig through the rubble of the building attacked in Douris, near Baalbek.

The attack destroyed the building operated by the civil defence, a politically unaffiliated emergency rescue service, and a neighbouring residence.

Eight people, including five women, were killed and 27 wounded in another Israeli attack on the the city, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported on Thursday.

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