An Irish soldier on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has been shot and killed and a second is in critical condition after a “hostile” crowd surrounded their armoured vehicle, Ireland’s defence minister has said.
The soldiers, part of the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), were on what Simon Coveney, who is also Ireland’s foreign minister, said on Thursday was a standard run from UNIFIL’s area of operations in south Lebanon to Beirut when the incident happened in the Sarafand area late on Wednesday.
