Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group buried one of its members who was killed a day earlier when a truck carrying ammunition belonging to the Iran-backed group overturned near Beirut, sparking clashes.
Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Ahmad Ali Kassas in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, an AFP photographer says, adding that heavy gunfire rang out during the procession.
The office of Lebanon’s Defence Minister Maurice Slim said a bullet hit the minister’s car as it passed through a district near the area, without harming him.
Ruling out an assassination attempt, a military source and a security source tell AFP on condition of anonymity that Slim’s vehicle was hit by “a stray bullet” whose origin was unidentified.
Earlier today, the Lebanese army said it seized munitions from a Hezbollah truck that had overturned in the town of Kahale near Beirut, leading to deadly clashes between Christian residents and members of the powerful Shiite Muslim group.
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