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People flee Lebanon by the thousands

(AP/Reteurs)
Updated: 2006-07-18 20:30

Swedish expatriates and Lebanese Swedish citizens listen to a member of the Swedish Police force as they are waiting to be evacuated from Lebanon, on buses organized by the Swedish embassy, from a road intersection, leading out of the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. About 850 Swedes among about 5,000 in Lebanon have been evacuated, most to Aleppo in northern Syria. Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched waves of bombings that hit south Beirut, the border and the eastern city of Baalbek in the early hours Tuesday. [AP]