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5 UNIFIL men hurt in Lebanon blast
Several French peacekeepers injured as roadside bomb hits their patrol near southern port city of Tyre
A roadside bombing in southern Lebanon on Friday wounded at least five UN peacekeepers, Lebanese military and security officials said.
A Lebanese security official said the bomb went off in the Bourj al-Shamali area near the port city of Tyre, damaging a vehicle that was carrying French troops serving with the UN peacekeeping force deployed near Lebanon's border with Israel.
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The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the wounded soldiers were rushed to a nearby hospital.
An official with the Lebanese Red Cross confirmed five peacekeepers were wounded, one of them seriously, as well as a Lebanese man who happened to be passing in the area.
There have been several attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon in the past.
The deadliest assault on the UN peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, was in June 2007, when a bomb hit an armored personnel carrier near the Israeli border and killed six Spanish peacekeepers.
In July, a roadside bomb blew up next to a UN convoy carrying French peacekeepers in the south, wounding at least five peacekeepers. And last month, a bomb exploded at a hotel frequented by UN staffers, also in the south, causing damage but no casualties.
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