By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BEIRUT -- An independent examination has found 28 persons were killed by Israeli bombs in Qana, half the number originally reported.
The Lebanese government yesterday concurred with the accounting by Human Rights Watch, which found that the original death estimate -- of 56 persons, half of them children -- had been inflated by chaos and confusion. Some reports initially put the death toll as high as 60.
Hospital officials in Tyre, where the injured and killed were taken, confirmed that 12 adults and 16 children were killed in Sunday's attack. Nine were wounded.
Authorities have listed 11 persons as missing, including six children.
Israel, meanwhile, released its own report saying it would not have bombed the building if it had known civilians were inside but insisted Hezbollah must bear the blame for placing its rocket launchers in civilian areas.
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