Deadly bomb rocks Lebanon border town of Arsal

  05 November 2015    Read: 1235
Deadly bomb rocks Lebanon border town of Arsal
At least five people have been killed in a bomb attack in a town in north-eastern Lebanon, near the border with Syria, security sources say.
The bomb exploded in a commercial area of the Sabil district of Arsal.

One source told the AFP news agency that a suicide bomber had targeted a meeting of Syrian Sunni Muslim clerics.

Arsal, a Sunni town sandwiched between Syrian government-held territory and mainly Shia Lebanese areas sympathetic to it, hosts many Syrian refugees.

Last year, it was the scene of fierce fighting between Lebanese security forces and jihadist militants from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and Islamic State (IS).

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