BEIRUT (Reuters) - Six children were wounded in a blast in southern Lebanon on Friday in what witnesses said appeared to be an explosion caused by old cluster bomb munitions dropped by Israeli forces during the 2006 war.
The device exploded as the children were playing in the village of Zibqin, in a valley several kilometres from the frontier with Israel. Two of the children were seriously wounded and taken to hospital, the witnesses said.
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