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]
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