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Lebanon blast 'kills UN soldiers' Lebanon blast 'kills UN soldiers'
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Four United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and several other soldiers wounded by an explosion in southern Lebanon, security officials say. Four United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and several others wounded by an explosion in southern Lebanon, security officials say.
A blast hit two patrol vehicles which were transporting Spanish peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) near the border with Israel. The blast badly damaged two vehicles transporting Spanish peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) near the border with Israel.
It is unclear whether the soldiers were targeted or hit unexploded ordinance left over from last summer's war. It is unclear if the soldiers were targeted or hit unexploded ordinance left over from last summer's war.
The UN says it is checking the reports and has sent a team to the area. Cluster bombs and mines have killed 30 people in the area in the last year.
But radical groups in Lebanon have also threatened to attack the UN peacekeepers, says the BBC's Kim Ghattas.
For the last five weeks, the Lebanese army has been battling militants from the Fatah al-Islam group near the northern city of Tripoli, who are apparently inspired by al-Qaeda.
Authorities have said that Fatah al-Islam militants who have been arrested and interrogated have confessed there was a plan to attack the UN, our correspondent adds.
Multinational force
Sunday's explosion took place near the southern town of Khiyam in the area of operation of UN peacekeepers.
A convoy of armoured UN vehicles from a Spanish battalion was hit by the blast.
"A vehicle hit a mine or booby-trap in the Marjayoun-Khiam valley," a Unifil colonel told the AFP news agency."A vehicle hit a mine or booby-trap in the Marjayoun-Khiam valley," a Unifil colonel told the AFP news agency.
The Unifil peacekeeping force, which has been deployed in Lebanon since 1978, was beefed up last summer after the end of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.
There are now around 11,000 UN peacekeepers deployed in the area, including French, Spanish and Indian soldiers.