'IS Official' Shoots, Critically Wounds Man in Arsal
A man was critically wounded Monday in a shooting in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, a media reports said.
“Islamic State security official Ahmed al-Hujeiri, aka Abu Daoud, opened fire at Lebanese citizen Ahmed Abdo al-Atrash in Arsal, leaving him seriously wounded,” al-Jadeed television reported.
MTV said the incident was related to an old dispute between Abu Daoud and the 20-year-old Atrash.
Militants from the IS and the rival Fateh al-Sham Front are entrenched in areas along the undemarcated Lebanese-Syrian border and the army regularly shells their posts while Hizbullah and the Syrian forces have engaged in clashes with them on the Syrian side of the border.
The two groups overran the town of Arsal in 2014 before being ousted by the army after days of deadly battles.
The retreating militants abducted more than 30 Lebanese soldiers and policemen of whom four have been executed and nine remain in IS' captivity.
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