Army, UN forces find explosives in south Lebanon

BEIRUT - Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers found 12 boxes of the explosive TNT in a village in southern Lebanon, a security source said Sunday.

The source said the discovery was made in the village of Khiam in Hamames overnight by the Spanish battalion of the United Nations Interim Forces in South Lebanon (UNIFIL).

The army and UNIFIL have cordoned off the area to investigation. The source said the TNT was not rigged to explode.

The boxes were found shortly after a bomb blast killed two members of the Palestinian group Hamas in Haret Hriek, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a hotbed of the militant Hezbollah group.