4 Hurt as 8 Rockets Hit Brital, 'al-Nusra in Lebanon' Claims Attack

Four people were wounded as at least eight rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border struck several areas in the Bekaa on Monday, in an attack that was claimed by the Qaida-inspired group al-Nusra Front in Lebanon.

“Two rockets fell between the towns of Talya and Brital near the public road and one of them hit near a residential area in Brital's al-Habib valley,” NNA said.

“Four people were lightly injured in the shelling, including Hasan Tleis who was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the head,” the agency added.

It earlier reported that six rockets landed in Brital and its surroundings.

A security source told Agence France Presse that “five rockets launched from across the border with Syria hit the village of Brital and its surroundings."

Two of the rockets landed near Brital's high school, and one near the municipality of nearby village al-Khudr. The two remaining rockets hit an area between the two villages, causing no injuries.

Meanwhile, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) said 12 rockets struck the outskirts of Hawrtaala and Brital.

Later on Monday, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed the attack in a statement published on its Twitter account.

“With God's help, the heroes of al-Nusra Front in Lebanon fired several Grad rockets on the dens of the 'party of Satan' (Hizbullah), in retaliation to the continued massacres of the party of Iran,” the Front said, calling on what it called “our people in Lebanon” to be “patient.”

The group also slammed President Michel Suleiman as “a head of state who cannot defend himself,” in an apparent reference to the latest war of words between the president and Hizbullah.