A 27-year-old foreign worker from Thailand was killed Friday and another worker was wounded when unexploded ordnance blew up in an orchard by the northern community of Kibbutz Yir’on in the Upper Galilee.
Security officials were still investigating but said they believed the cause was a munition previously fired by Hezbollah. It was not clear whether the blast was caused by one of the victims handling or interacting with the weaponry in some way.
The worker’s death was originally reported as being the result of an anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon, however, the Israel Defense Forces later issued a statement saying the results of its preliminary investigation indicated that ordnance on the ground had been the cause.