UN's Ban: Report on S.Korea ship attack "troubling"

UNITED NATIONS May 19 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a report on the results of an international investigation that blamed North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean naval ship was "deeply troubling."

"The secretary-general has learned of the results of the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan naval ship of the Republic of Korea with a heavy heart and serious concern," Ban's press office said in a statement.

"The facts laid out in the report are deeply troubling," the statement said. "As secretary-general of the United Nations, he will continue to closely follow developments."

(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Will Dunham)