Italian UN peacekeepers targeted by Lebanon bomb
Six Italian peacekeepers have been wounded in a bomb attack targeting a UN patrol in south Lebanon, according to officials.
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard next to a destroyed Italian UN peacekeeper vehicle that was struck by the roadside bomb Photo: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari
The explosion occurred on a busy highway leading to Sidon. A spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the bomb had been aimed at a logistics convoy.
"We have reports of casualties of UNIFIL peacekeepers," a spokesman said.
The explosion happened on the UN's International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, when peacekeepers killed in missions across the world are commemorated by their colleagues.
UNIFIL has about 12,000 troops and naval personnel in Lebanon after its expansion under a UN Security Council resolution that halted the 2006 Israel-Hizbollah war in southern Lebanon.
A car bomb killed six UN peacekeepers in Lebanon in June 2007.
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