A soldier serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed on Wednesday in an explosion during a de-mining operation in south Lebanon.
An explosion of ordnance led to a French mine-clearing soldier killed and another injured, a UNIFIL officer told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, the official National News Agency quoted UNIFIL's spokeswomen Yasmina Bouziane as saying that the soldier was killed while clearing unexploded ordnance with an engineering team in a valley south of the village of Shamaa, some 15 km south of Tyre.
On Tuesday, a roadside bomb targeting a Spanish convoy for UNIFIL exploded in southern Lebanon, leaving six UN peacekeepers dead.
UNIFIL's mandate in Lebanon was beefed up last year after the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war. Currently, about 13,000 UN peacekeeping troops are deployed on the ground between the Litani River and the UN drawn Blue Line.
Source: Xinhua
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