4 killed, 4 hurt as ordnance explodes in Lebanese Army vehicle in South
Four people were killed and four others wounded when unexploded ordnance blew up inside a Lebanese Army vehicle in the southern town of Braiqaa on Sunday, media report said.
The reports said the dead include an army officer and two soldiers.
A soldier had been killed Monday in an explosion inside a Hezbollah tunnel in south Lebanon.
"While a specialized army unit was carrying out an engineering survey of a site" in south Lebanon's Tyre district, "a suspicious object exploded, killing a member of the unit and moderately injuring three others," an army statement said.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 ended a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and formed the basis of a November truce that largely ended more than a year of fresh hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
The resolution called for the disarmament of all non-state armed groups, and said Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon.
Under the truce, Hezbollah was to withdraw its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.
Israel was due to complete its pullout from Lebanon by February 18 after missing a January deadline, but it has kept troops in five places it deems "strategic".
During the war, Israel's army said it uncovered Hezbollah tunnels and tunnel shafts in south Lebanon.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP earlier this month that the group had ceded to the Lebanese Army around 190 of its 265 military positions identified south of the Litani.
Source: Naharnet
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