Pakistan, Aug. 10 -- A powerful explosion at a weapons depot in southern Lebanon killed six soldiers on Saturday as the army worked to dismantle munitions from a Hezbollah facility near the Israeli border. The blast occurred in Wadi Zibqin, Tyre district, during operations linked to a government decision to disarm the Iran-backed militant group by the end of the year.

According to military officials, troops were carefully removing munitions and unexploded ordnance left from the recent conflict when the sudden detonation tore through the depot. The facility, identified as belonging to Hezbollah, was being inspected under the army's ongoing mission to dismantle the group's infrastructure in the south following last year's truce with Israel...