Fighter-bombers struck the Ibrahim Abdel Aal power station at Sohmor, four kilometres (2.5 miles) south of Karwan artificial lake on the Litani dam in central Lebanon, the police said.

Electricity was immediately cut in the region. The scale of damage was not immediately known, and there was no word of victims.

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