UN peacekeeper killed, three wounded in south Lebanon shooting, Unifil says

A French UN peacekeeper stands beside an armored vehicle at his base, waiting to move with his unit for a patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border in Deir Kifa, southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and ​three others wounded after a Unifil patrol ‌came under small-arms fire while clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the southern Lebanese village of ​Ghandouriyeh, the peacekeeping mission said on Saturday.

Two ​of the wounded peacekeepers were seriously injured, ⁠it said.