An explosion at an arms depot in south Lebanon has killed six troops and wounded several others. The blast happened Saturday as army experts were dismantling munitions.

The Lebanese army’s mission to centralize weapons under its control is fraught with danger. On Saturday, six soldiers from the Engineering Regiment and the 5th Infantry Brigade were killed while searching tunnels.

An explosion at an arms depot in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed six army explosives experts and wounded several others, the Lebanese army said.

The Lebanese army said on Saturday that six soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while they were inspecting a weapons depot and dismantling its contents in the southern city of Tyre. An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the blast, the army added in a statement.

Deadly explosion at weapons depot comes as army has been dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese army holding a mourning ceremony for one of the six soldiers killed in the explosion of an arms depot in the city of Tyre, in front of a military hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. Six Lebanese Army soldiers were killed and an unspecified number of others injured on Saturday when a weapons depot exploded during an inspection and dismantling operation carried out by an army unit in the city of Tyre,