BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said on Friday that investigations into the killing of an Irish soldier on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon were ongoing, adding that those responsible “will be punished”, according to a statement.
The soldier was shot and killed late on Wednesday, and a second soldier was in a critical condition after a hostile crowd surrounded their armoured vehicle, Ireland’s defence minister said on Thursday.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam in Beirut, writing by Ahmad Ghaddar in Dubai)
