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Lebanese security sources earlier said one peacekeeper had died in the attack on a busy highway leading to the port city, leaving a huge, grey plume of smoke. The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the bomb had been aimed at a logistics convoy and confirmed six peacekeepers had been wounded. "Five are moderately wounded, and one is seriously wounded. They are in a hospital in Sidon," UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti told Reuters. The attack prompted Rome to declare it would reduce its contingent, which is the largest in UNIFIL with nearly 1,700 soldiers. UNIFIL's previous commander was also Italian. The force of the explosion tore through part of a highway concrete barrier, smashed the white jeep's windows and left it riddled with shrapnel, a Reuters picture showed. The driver's face, hands and stomach were drenched in blood. Other pictures showed two peacekeepers with bloodied faces and dazed expressions after they left the destroyed vehicle in Rmaileh village, about 35 km (22 miles) south of Beirut, and near Ain el-Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp where Islamist militant groups are known to reside. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack, which happened on the U.N.'s International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, when peacekeepers killed in missions across the world are commemorated by their colleagues. "The United Nations will work closely together with the Lebanese authorities to have a full and swift investigation on the attack to bring the perpetrators to justice," Ban said. SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNATION The U.N. Security Council echoed his remarks in a statement, saying the 15-nation panel "condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack." The last bomb attack against UNIFIL was in January 2008 when two Irish peacekeepers were slightly wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb near the area of Friday's attack. A car bomb killed six U.N. peacekeepers in June 2007. UNIFIL has about 12,000 troops and naval personnel in the country after its expansion under U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 that halted the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL operates alongside 15,000 Lebanese army troops who are deployed in the south to keep peace near the frontier with Israel and prevent weapons transfers in an area that is a stronghold of Hezbollah guerrillas. The border area has stayed largely quiet with the exception of occasional flare-ups. Ten Palestinian demonstrators were killed earlier this month after Israeli troops opened fire on a protest on the Lebanese side of the border, the Lebanese army and security sources said. 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