Indonesia has received the bodies of three peacekeepers killed on deployment in Lebanon, as it brands an explosion that injured three other of its blue helmets as “unacceptable”, AFP reports.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) says three peacekeepers were wounded in a blast that occurred inside a UN facility near El Adeisse on Friday afternoon, and rushed to hospital.
Two were seriously wounded.
The UN Information Centre in Jakarta has said the “origin of the explosion” was unknown, but identified the injured soldiers as Indonesian.
“Repeated attacks or incidents of this kind are unacceptable,” the Indonesian foreign ministry said in a statement. “Regardless of their cause, these events underscore the urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces amid an increasingly dangerous conflict situation.”
The government has urged the UN Security Council to investigate the events and “to immediately convene a meeting of troop-contributing countries to Unifil to conduct a review and take measures to enhance the protection of personnel serving with Unifil”.
