An ongoing Lebanese army investigation has determined that a landmine wounded three UN military observers and a translator last week, a judicial official said Wednesday, as Israel implicated Hezbollah.
"Preliminary results of a Lebanese army investigation have found that the observers were wounded by a landmine," the Lebanese official told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
The ongoing investigation by the army and peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has yet to determine who planted the mine, the official added, noting three mines were in the area, "one of which exploded".
UNIFIL said that military observers from Australia, Chile and Norway and a Lebanese language assistant were wounded in Saturday's blast.
The observers from the UN Truce Supervision Organization, which supports UNIFIL, had been on a foot patrol along the so-called Blue Line -- the UN-demarcated border between Lebanon and Israel, the peacekeepers said.
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