“Private Roee Alfi, 19, an IDF soldier from the Engineering Corps was killed at around noon Tuesday when an old anti-tank mine exploded in the southern Golan Heights,” Israeli website Ynet news reported.

The report added that two other soldiers also were wounded in the in the blast.

The Zionist army has launched an investigation into the incident.

A senior Israeli officer said the cause of the blast is still unknown.

"It was not a mine that hasn't been spotted before. It was exposed and marked (in advance of its clearance) today along with additional mines. It was an Israeli mine that we had information on," he said on condition of anonymity on Tuesday.