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| Bomb hits Lebanon UN peacekeepers | Bomb hits Lebanon UN peacekeepers |
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| A roadside bomb in southern Lebanon has hit a UN peacekeeping patrol, Lebanese security officials say. | A roadside bomb in southern Lebanon has hit a UN peacekeeping patrol, Lebanese security officials say. |
| The bomb hit the peacekeepers as their patrol passed through the village of Qasimiyeh near the port city of Tyre, officials said. | The bomb hit the peacekeepers as their patrol passed through the village of Qasimiyeh near the port city of Tyre, officials said. |
| There are no reports of casualties and the nationality of the peacekeepers in the patrol is unknown. | There are no reports of casualties and the nationality of the peacekeepers in the patrol is unknown. |
| Last month six Spanish peacekeepers from the UN's Lebanon force were killed when their vehicle was hit by a bomb. | |
| That attack was the first time the UN force in Lebanon (Unifil) had been targeted since it was reinforced following the war between Israel and the Shia Islamist group Hezbollah in July and August last year. | |
| The Unifil force has been deployed in Lebanon since 1978 and now numbers 13,000 soldiers, including contingents from France, Spain and India. |