Unknown assailants opened fire on a Syrian bus in Deir Emar in northern Lebanon at dawn Monday, killing a Syrian citizen, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said that the assailants shot at the bus, which was carrying 25 people, at 2:30 am in Deir Emar on the Tripoli-Akkar highway, killing 17-year-old Abdullah A.
A security official told Agence France Presse that several other people were injured.
Three windows on the driver”s side were shattered by the bullets and the tires bore bullet holes, AFP said.
The Lebanese army has secured the site of the attack about five kilometers north of Tripoli.
The attack comes a day after Prime Minister Saad Hariri ended a two-day fence-mending visit to Damascus, his first since the 2005 assassination of his father, former Premier Rafik Hariri.