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| One wounded in Lebanon blast: Lebanese army |
| 2009-10-14 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The Lebanese army said on Tuesday one person was wounded after a shell exploded in a home in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Filsi on Monday. Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Haj Hassan said the explosion happened in the garage of a Hezbollah member, wounding one person. "We are concerned with finding out the reasons for this explosion," Hassan said. Lebanese security sources said on Monday five people had been killed in a munitions explosion in a house in Tayr Filsi, just inside U.N. peacekeepers' area of operations. Hezbollah denied anyone had died in a blast in the area. Israel said the blast at a Hezbollah house showed munitions were being stockpiled in violation of a truce which ended a 2006 war between the Jewish state and the Shiite guerrilla group. "Immediately (after the incident), security forces cordoned off the area and a specialized committee began an investigation into the circumstances of the incident," a statement from the army said. A senior Israeli military source said the Israeli military has asked UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force that was reinforced after the 34-day war in 2006, to open an investigation. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai told Israel's Army Radio on Tuesday it was clear this was "a Hezbollah accident". UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane said a U.N. peacekeeping patrol and a Lebanese army patrol visited the explosion site on Monday night. On Tuesday investigation teams from both parties "inspected the site and the surrounding area". "According to the information from the Lebanese Army one person was injured and UNIFIL has no reports of other casualties," Bouziane said. "We're still in the process of analyzing the information and the available evidence to ascertain the circumstances and establish the facts concerning the incident," she said. Israel and the United States have accused Hezbollah of violating a U.N. weapons embargo in southern Lebanon after a weapons cache exploded in a village there in July. The United Nations said at the time there were signs the stockpile belonged to Hezbollah, and added that the presence of these arms were a violation of Security Council resolution 1701 which ended the war. |
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