A second French soldier has died of wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday.

“Corporal Anicet Girardin… brought home yesterday from Lebanon, where he was badly wounded by Hezbollah fighters, died this morning of the consequences of his wounds,” Macron posted on X.

Another French soldier, Staff Sergeant Florian Montorio, was killed in the attack on April 18, which occurred when the UNIFIL peacekeepers were clearing unexploded ordnance in a village in southern Lebanon.

Three other troops, including Girardin, were wounded in the incident, with one more described as being in serious condition.

Girardin, a member of a specialist dog-handling unit, was part of a mission “to clear a route booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device,” Armies Minister Catherine Vautrin posted on X.

“Coming under sustained fire from concealed Hezbollah fighters at very close range, he moved to aid his section leader who had just fallen, only to be seriously hit in turn,” she added.

Le caporal-chef Anicet Girardin du 132ème régiment d’infanterie cynotechnique de Suippes, rapatrié hier du Liban où il avait été gravement blessé par des combattants du Hezbollah, est mort ce matin des suites de ses blessures. Il est mort pour la France.… pic.twitter.com/1eokASMl57 Advertisement if(typeof rgb_remove_toi_dfp_banner != "function" || !rgb_remove_toi_dfp_banner("#Article_Incontent1")){ window.tude = window.tude || { cmd: [] }; tude.cmd.push(function() { if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("rgbmedia-app") > -1){ tude.setDeviceType("mobile"); } tude.refreshAdsViaDivMappings([ { divId: 'Article_Incontent1', baseDivId:........

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