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| Lebanese Soldiers killed at East Bekaa checkpoint |
| 2013-05-29 |
| Armed men killed three Lebanese soldiers at an army checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa Valley then fled towards the Syrian border, Lebanese officials say. It was not clear who carried out Tuesday's attack, which is the latest incident in a frontier region which has been increasingly drawn into the violence in neighbouring Syria. The shooting took place before dawn near Arsal, in an area used by Syrian rebels and their Lebanese backers to smuggle arms and fighters into Syria. "Soldiers at the checkpoint confronted the attackers and a clash ensued which resulted in the martyrdom of three soldiers," an army statement said. The military was searching for the assailants, who may have fled into neighbouring Syria, Fayez Ghosn, Lebanon's defence minister, said after Tuesday's attack. |
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