BEIRUT (AFP) — Six Palestinians were charged on Thursday for their alleged role in a roadside bombing against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, the official news agency ANI reported.
It said Judge Marun Zakkhour charged three of suspects in preventive detention and issued warrants against three other fugitives for "attempting to kill soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)".
The July 16 bombing damaged a vehicle of the Tanzanian contingent but caused no casualties.
It came less than a month after a car bombing killed three Spanish and three Colombian peacekeepers in an attack linked to deadly fighting in northern Lebanon between the army and Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants.
UNIFIL counts about 13,500 troops in southern Lebanon along with 1,000 civilian employees, compared to only 2,000 before last year's devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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