BEIRUT: Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati condemned a bomb attack on a UNIFIL logistics convoy Friday, praising the U.N. for preserving stability and security in south Lebanon.
Mikati’s remarks came during a telephone conversation with U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams, a statement from his press office said.
A roadside bomb blew up a U.N. vehicle Friday on a highway leading to the southern city of Sidon, killing one Italian peacekeeper and wounding five others.
Two Lebanese civilians were also slightly wounded in the blast, a security source said.
UNIFIL has around 12,000 troops and naval personnel in Lebanon after its expansion under a U.N. Security Council resolution that halted the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon.
The attack was the first was since January 2008, when a roadside bomb struck a U.N. vehicle traveling along the same coastal highway, lightly wounding two peacekeepers.
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
