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| Lebanon: Blast injures at least three UN peacekeepers |
| 2008-01-08 |
| A roadside bomb injured at least three UN peacekeeping soldiers on Tuesday, when it struck their patrol south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The peacekeepers are Irish, not Spanish as stated in initial reports, the state-run Lebanese national news agency said. The blast occurred on a road between the towns of Rmaileh and the port city of Sidon, about 35 km south of Beirut. The three Irish peacekeepers were taken to hospital in Sidon, reports said. Security forces closed off the area where the explosion occurred. Islamist websites on Tuesday published an audio message from the fugitive leader of a Muslim fundamentalist group Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon, Shaker al-Absi. In the message, Jordanian-born al-Absi called on fellow militants to resume attacks in Lebanon. He was believed to have been killed in an attack on the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli last year. Tuesday's attack was the third on the 13,500 troop UN peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) since it was expanded after the so-called 2006 July war between Israel and guerrillas from Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah. A roadside bomb in July exploded close to a UNIFIL position, causing no casualties. On 24 June last year, three Spanish and three Colombian UN soldiers were killed in a bomb attack against their armoured vehicle in south Lebanon. |
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