Eight killed, seven of them children, in rocket strike in Libya's Benghazi

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By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eight people were killed, including seven children, when a rocket hit a residential building in the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Thursday, medics said, two days after a similar attack claimed by Islamic State militants. A Reuters reporter saw several dead children in a hospital in the city, the oil-producing North African state's second largest, where army forces and Islamist factions have been fighting each other for a year. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for that attack, according to a Twitter message.

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