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Six IDF Soldiers Wounded

August 26, 1987
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Six IDF soldiers were wounded in the south Lebanon security zone Tuesday when their patrol inadvertently entered a South Lebanon Army (SLA) minefield. The injured men were evacuated to a hospital in Haifa.

In another incident Tuesday, a Nepalese UNIFIL soldier was killed near Yaater village in the security zone and three others were wounded when they were shot in an ambush. They were attacked by six men dressed in civilian clothes, UNIFIL sources said.

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