Lebanon ? A U.N. agency said Saturday that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer’s war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group – the first time Israel has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.

The report by the U.N. Mine Action Coordination Center follows its investigation of a land mine explosion Friday that wounded two European disposal experts and a Lebanese medic.

Later Saturday, the agency reported that a British demining expert was injured in a separate blast while trying to clear mines from the same area where Friday’s explosion occurred. The deminer, who worked for the British-based land mine clearing company BACTEC, had to have his foot amputated.

The explosions were caused by Israeli anti-personnel land mines placed in mine fields laid during the fighting in July and August in south Lebanon, the center in south Lebanon said.