A soldier serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has died following a mortar attack in southern Lebanon, the UN said on Thursday.
The soldier from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) died of his injuries in the early hours after he was initially flown to a hospital in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The attack happened late on Wednesday evening near the town of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL said in a statement. Two other UN peacekeepers were also injured.
UNIFIL initially did not say which side the attack came from, adding it had launched an investigation to determine what happened.
The observer mission said a "growing high number" of trajectories and impacts had recently been recorded in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL called for the violence to end.
UNIFIL soldiers have already been killed and injured several times in the conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
Israel and Lebanon made another attempt overnight to implement a ceasefire that has so far been hardly effective. Hezbollah has not commented so far.
