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An Iraqi national killed in Syria near the border with Lebanon

An Iraqi national killed in Syria near the border with Lebanon

A Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon. (Credit: AFP)

According to security sources quoted by our correspondent in the Bekaa, unidentified gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi national near the border between Syria and Lebanon, on the Syrian side.

The man, named Sakr Issam Sobhi al-Jabbouri and born in 1996, died instantly and his body was taken by the Red Cross to al-Batoul hospital in Hermel (capital of the district with the same name) in the Bekaa.

The security services found a document in his pocket containing a pass in his name.

This article originally appeared in French in L'Orient-Le Jour.

According to security sources quoted by our correspondent in the Bekaa, unidentified gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi national near the border between Syria and Lebanon, on the Syrian side.The man, named Sakr Issam Sobhi al-Jabbouri and born in 1996, died instantly and his body was taken by the Red Cross to al-Batoul hospital in Hermel (capital of the district with the same name) in the Bekaa.The...