The World - News from Sept. 5, 1986

Three French soldiers assigned to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon were killed and a fourth was wounded in the explosion of a remote-control bomb in southern Lebanon, a U.N. spokesman said. The bomb was planted on a road about 200 yards from the French position in the Shia Muslim village of Jouaiya, nine miles east of the southern port of Tyre, and exploded as the French soldiers were jogging past. It was not immediately known who planted the device. The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on the nine-nation U.N. force since Aug. 11, when French members of the organization killed four Shia militiamen who refused to be searched at a checkpoint.