Hezbollah announced retaliatory rocket fire targeting a town in northern Israel, hours after Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli attack killed three civil defence personnel in the country’s south, AFP reports.

Hezbollah said it had bombarded “Kiryat Shmona with a volley of Falaq rockets” early on Sunday “in response to the enemy attacks… and particularly the attack” that killed the emergency workers in the Lebanese village of Froun.

On Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said the “Israeli enemy targeting of a Lebanese civil defence team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes in the village of Froun led to the martyrdom of three emergency responders”.

Two others were wounded, one of them critically, the ministry added.

Lebanon’s civil defence said in a statement that three of its employees were killed in “an Israeli strike that targeted a firefighting vehicle after they had finished a firefighting mission”.

The health ministry statement condemned the “blatant Israeli attack that targeted a team from an official body of the Lebanese state”.