TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) -- The United Nations force in southern Lebanon vowed to pursue its peacekeeping mission despite a bomb attack that wounded two soldiers earlier this week.

""We are here to do a job and nothing will deter us from it,"" United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commander Major General Claudio Graziano said during joint fire training exercises with the Lebanese army in south Lebanon.
""The challenges are diverse and we saw some examples of it in the past week,"" he told reporters near the UNIFIL headquarters in the southern coastal town of Naqura.
""Such incidents only further strengthen our resolve to pursue our mandate for peace and security in south Lebanon,"" he said.
Graziano said the artillery live fire training exercise was the second of its kind since July 2006 -- when an Israeli-Hezbollah war broke out -- ""and is directed at honing the skills and expertise of the battle group.""
During the military exercise, UNIFIL and Lebanese army forces fired 46 rounds of artillery at targets located off the coastline, he said.
Two Irish military officers serving with UNIFIL were slightly wounded in a roadside bombing on Tuesday targeting their vehicle in southern Lebanon.
Tuesday's bombing marked the third such attack against UNIFIL since the force was boosted to more than 13,000 soldiers after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
No one has claimed responsibility for the latest attack.