A roadside bomb exploded Tuesday near a United Nations vehicle traveling along a coastal highway south of Beirut, lightly wounding two peacekeepers, U.N. and Lebanese officials said, according to AP. It was the first attack on the expanded U.N. force in Lebanon since last summer, when six Spanish peacekeepers died when a bomb hit their armored personnel carrier in June near the Israeli border in southern Lebanon. In July, a roadside bomb struck a U.N. jeep near the southern port of Tyre, but there were no casualties. Tuesday's explosion rocked the town of Rmeileh, near the southern coastal city of Sidon. Smoke was seen billowing from the scene, witnesses said. Milos Strugar, adviser to the force commander of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, said one UNIFIL vehicle was damaged in the explosion and two peacekeepers in the vehicle were «lightly wounded» and taken to a hospital.
