Gunmen Shoot Down a Man in Arsal

Unknown assailants opened fire at a man in the northeastern town of Arsal and injured him, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

Two masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot Omar Mohammed al-Hujeiri, 41, aka Omar al-Antar, on the al-Jamaleh road in Arsal, said NNA.

They hit him in his neck and reports said that his condition is critical.

Investigations were launched into the case.

No further details have been unveiled so far on the circumstances of the incident.

Such incidents have become frequent in Arsal in recent years.

The border town hosts thousands of refugees who fled the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Militants from the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syria branch, and the Islamic State group are entrenched in the town's outskirts. In August 2014, they stormed the town and engaged in bloody battles with the Lebanese army.

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