Lebanon’s army says it has detained over 100 Syrians for illegal entry into the country, following a series of bombings the previous day that shook a village near the border with Syria.
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At least four suicide blasts hit the village before dawn, a military source told AFP.
“It is clear from the pace of explosions that we have entered an episode from hell”, Wael Abu Faour, the health minister, told Reuters.
Jordan has condemned a suicide bombing attack in the Lebanese village of Qaa, which claimed the lives of six people and wounded 17 others.
Qaa’s mayor, Bashir Matar, described in an interview with the Beirut-based pan Arab channel Al-Mayadeen how the fourth attacker was gunned down.
Lebanese Red Cross chief George Kettaneh confirmed that eight people were wounded and there no reports of casualities at this time.
The security official said the Lebanese army was combing the village for more attackers and has imposed a cordon, using flares to light up the area. “I shouted at him”, Matar told the Al-Mayadeen TV network.
“One rescue worker who was trying to carry a wounded man was killed when the second terrorist suicide bomber came”, he said. He added that several others were treated on the spot.
Qaa and the nearby Ras Baalbek are the only two villages with a Christian majority in the predominantly Shiite northeastern Hermel region, where the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group holds sway. The eyewitnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fears for his safety.
The provincial governor meanwhile imposed a curfew on Syrian refugees in the area.
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One of the four explosions struck an ambulance for the village’s archbishopric, killing its driver, residents said. Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah claims the Islamic State has the of Qaa citizens’ blood on its hands, according to the Associated Press.
