TYRE (AFP) - A British member of a demining team was killed on Thursday by a cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year’s war in Lebanon, officials said.

The 36-year-old was killed in the village of Kunin, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) southeast of the city of Tyre, Dalya Farran, spokewoman for the Mine Action Coordination Centre, told AFP.

"He was the supervisor of a team that has been clearing cluster bombs in that area and there was an accident with a cluster bomb that resulted in his death," Farran said. "Whether he stepped on the cluster bomb or moved it we’re not sure."

The munitions dropped by Israel during its devastating air war against Lebanon last year included at least a million cluster bomblets, according to the United Nations.

Unexploded ordnance has killed at least 36 people and wounded 227 since the conflict ended in August 2006, according to UN figures.