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| Italian UN soldier dies in Lebanon attack |
| 2011-05-28 |
| BEIRUT - A bomb blew up a U.N. vehicle near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Friday, killing an Italian United Nations peacekeeper, security sources said. The explosion occurred on a busy highway leading to Sidon, and four other Italian soldiers were wounded, a security source and a Reuters photographer said. A spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the bomb had been aimed at a logistics convoy. “We have reports of casualties of UNIFIL peacekeepers,” spokesman Neeraj Singh told Reuters. He could not disclose their nationalities. UNIFIL has about 12,000 troops and naval personnel in Lebanon after its expansion under a U.N. Security Council resolution that halted the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon. A car bomb killed six U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon in June 2007. |
| Posted by:Steve White |