BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 6, SPA -- Five people were killed early Sunday when Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar, Lebanese security officials and Arab media said. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television later reported thatanother body had been found, raising the toll to six, butofficials could not immediately confirm that. Al-Jazeera television reported three people dead inNaqoura, on the Mediterranean coast side of Lebanon'sborder with Israel. But security officials could confirmjust one person killed there, when Israeli missiles slammedinto a three-story house around 4 a.m. (0100GMT). Ground fighting raged across swaths of south Lebanon as well on Sunday. Al-Manar ran an urgent statement from Hezbollah sayingfighters forced Israeli troops to retreat from the bordervillage of Adaisse. Two Israeli tanks and two bulldozerswere destroyed, and their crews were either killed orwounded, it said. The Associated Press quoted Witnesses as saying that Israeli artillery shells were raining down on Kfar Kila, less than a kilometer from the Israeli border. Israel withdrew 10 tanks from the neighboring town of Taibeh, leaving three behind, al-Manar said. Intense shelling was also reported Sunday morning in the Lebanese border village of Houla, and in villages along the Litani River, which runs east-west across south Lebanon. Security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymitybecause they were not authorized to talk to the media, saidthe victims in Ansar were a man named Ibrahim Asie and four of his relatives. Four airstrikes hit Ansar Sunday morning, at 1 a.m.(2200GMT Saturday), 6 a.m. (0300GMT), 7 a.m. (0400GMT) and 10:30 a.m. (0730GMT), security officials and Lebanon'sNational News Agency said. Asie and his family were killedin the second one, and the third strike hit a road nearbyas rescuers were pulling the bodies out of the rubble ofthe house, which was flattened, NNA reported. Al-Manar reported eight people were wounded in thevillage, which lies about 25 kilometers (15.53 miles) northof the border, near the market town of Nabatiyeh. Israeli warplanes destroyed a water purification stationin the village of Jibsheet, as well as a Lebanese armyvehicle in Ansar, security officials said. Local Arab media reported air raids on the apple-growing Iqlim al-Tuffah province as well.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/381022