JERUSALEM (JTA) — An explosion in southern Lebanon on the border with Israel is reported to be a Hezbollah weapons depot.
The blast seriously damaged the building that the weapons were housed in and killed nearby farm animals, but there were no reports of people being injured, according to Reuters.
Members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, were investigating the cause of the explosion.
Hezbollah reportedly sealed off the area, preventing the entrance of the UNIFIL observers, and claimed that the explosion was caused by an Israeli shell that was fired on southern Lebanon during the 2006 war and did not explode at the time.
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