Syrian Pro-Regime Figure Killed in Southern Lebanon
Gunmen have assassinated a prominent Syrian pro-government figure at his home in southern Lebanon, state-run media in Damascus and Lebanese security officials said Wednesday.
The SANA news agency said Mohammed Darrar Jammo was gunned down by "terrorists" outside his home in the southern coastal town of Sarafand.
A Lebanese security official said Jammo was killed in the early hours of Wednesday.
"Mr. Jammo was shot dead by armed men at about two in the morning as he was about to enter his home in Sarafand where he lives with his Lebanese wife," the official told Agence France Presse.
"They shot him with 20 bullets in different parts of his body," he said.
His daughter was with him at the time of the attack and was later rushed to hospital suffering from shock, security officials said.
They said a Lebanese man was detained near Jammo's house shortly after the shooting and was being questioned.
Jammo, a political analyst who often appeared on Arab TV stations, was one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's strongest defenders.
Assassinations of politicians, army officers and journalists are not uncommon in Syria but the killing in Lebanon of a Syrian figure is a rare incident.
The shooting is the latest spillover from Syria's civil war, now in its third year, into Lebanon, where people are divided between Assad supporters and opponents.
Source: Associated Press, Agence France Presse
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