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United Nations secretary general condemns explosion that injured UN observers in southern Lebanon

File image of UN peacekeepers holding their flag near the southern Lebanese-Israeli border
File image of UN peacekeepers holding their flag near the southern Lebanese-Israeli border. United Nations military observers were wounded Saturday while patrolling along the southern Lebanese border after a shell exploded near them. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has condemned an explosion that left three UN military observers and a Lebanese interpreter wounded when a shell exploded near them while they were patrolling the southern Lebanese border.

The blast came as clashes between the Israeli military and Hezbollah militants escalated in recent weeks.

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