QASMIYEH (Lebanon), July 16: A roadside bomb damaged a UN peacekeeping vehicle at a bridge in south Lebanon on Monday without causing casualties, in the second such attack in a month.

“We can confirm an explosion in the area of Qasmiyeh bridge which slightly damaged a UNIFIL vehicle of the Tanzanian battalion,” UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane said. “There were no casualties,” Bouziane said.

The blast came less than a month after a car bombing killed three Spanish and three Colombian peacekeepers on June 24 that was linked to deadly fighting in northern Lebanon between the army and Al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants.

UNIFIL said that a military police vehicle was hit by a small charge of explosives located a few metres from the vehicle. The blast caused limited damage to the vehicle.—AFP