A list of the makes of car that “might be used as vehicle based IED’s” – improvised explosive devices – is tagged to the walls of a Unifil office in south Lebanon.

It features a Honda Accord, a Toyota van and several types of Range Rover, but not the white Renault Rapido that on Sunday night blew up along the side of a quiet country road, just as a convoy of Spanish peacekeepers from the United Nations force was passing. The powerful explosion ripped the side off one of the armoured personnel carriers, killing six of the eight soldiers inside. Grim-looking Spanish Unifil soldiers on Monday manoeuvred the charred remains on to a white, UN-marked flatback truck and removed it from the scene near the town of Khiam, just north of the Israeli border.