Three paramedics were wounded in a strike on south Lebanon while on a rescue mission coordinated with UN peacekeepers, the Lebanese Red Cross said, AFP reports.

Four ambulance teams were dispatched to the southern city of Nabatiyeh in coordination with UNIFIL following a strike there, the Lebanese Red Cross said, adding that “the site was bombed again and three…volunteers were injured and are being transported to hospital”.

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