Eight killed, 7 of them children, in rocket strike in Libya's Benghazi

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eight people were killed, including seven children, when a rocket hit a residential district in the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Thursday, medics said. A Reuters reporter saw several dead children in a hospital in the city, Libya's second-largest, where army forces and Islamist groups have been fighting each other for a year. (Reporting by Ayman al-Warfalli; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)