Two Amal militiamen were killed and three soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon were wounded in a gunbattle in the southern Lebanon security zone Wednesday.
It was the second incident this week in which casualties were sustained by a unit of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
The clash occurred near Hadatha village, at the western end of the zone.
Two soldiers of UNIFIL’s Nepalese contingent were killed Monday and six were wounded when a UNIFIL observation post came under fire from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army.
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