Four Israeli soldiers were wounded and a local resident was killed in south Lebanon today when a booby-trapped vehicle exploded on a roadside east of Tyre as an Israel Defense Force patrol passed by. The latest incident brought to five the casualties sustained by the IDF in Lebanon this week. An Israeli soldier was wounded in Nabatiya yesterday by a hand grenade that injured five local residents. In Israel, a booby-trapped grenade found near a kiosk in Bnai Brak was safely defused by sappers.
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