France, April 18 -- Macron named the soldier as Florian Montorio, a master sergeant in the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment of Montauban serving with Unifil, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.

He was killed on Saturday morning in southern Lebanon, the president said in a post on X. The three soldiers wounded in the same attack were evacuated, he added.

"Everything suggests that Hezbollah is responsible for this attack," Macron said. "France demands that the Lebanese authorities immediately arrest the perpetrators and assume their responsibilities alongside Unifil."

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Montorio was "ambushed by an armed group at very close range", accordi...