TRIPOLI, Lebanon: A Lebanese soldier was killed yesterday as a military bus came under fire in the country’s north, in the fourth such deadly attack in less than a month, the army said.
It named the soldier as Jamal Jean Hashem, a teenager on the bus which was transporting soldiers back to their post in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon.
On September 23, gunmen shot dead a soldier in the nearby port city of Tripoli, the frequent scene of clashes between the army and Sunni extremists.
And a homemade bomb exploded in the city on October 7 killing another soldier, while a colleague died in an attack in the Akkar region two days later by gunmen on a motorbike.
AFP
