UNIFIL says three peacekeepers wounded in south
The United Nations force in Lebanon said a blast at one of its positions wounded three peacekeepers on Friday, the third such incident in a week.
"This afternoon, an explosion inside a U.N. position... injured three peacekeepers, two seriously. They are all currently being evacuated to hospital. We do not yet know the origin of the explosion," UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said.
The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon is deployed in the country's south near the border.
On Sunday, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed when a projectile exploded in a UNIFIL position, while another blast the following day killed two more Indonesian troops.
A U.N. security source had told AFP that Israeli fire was behind Sunday's attack, while a mine may have caused the second blast, for which Israel's military denied responsibility.
According to the U.N., 97 force members have been killed in violence since UNIFIL was first established to monitor the withdrawal of Israeli forces after they invaded Lebanon in 1978.
The force's mandate finishes at the end of this year.
Source: Agence France Presse
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