A Lebanese Army post in the Wadi Khaled border town of al-Majdal was on Wednesday targeted by heavy gunfire from the Syrian town of al-Maajir, al-Jadeed TV said, after an Islamic State-linked fugitive was killed earlier in the day by Lebanese military intelligence agents.
“The sound of gunfire is echoing across Wadi Khaled’s villages and towns,” al-Jadeed added.
The army had earlier on Wednesday announced that the fugitive was shot dead by the patrol in Wadi Khaled after he tried to run over its members with his car.
The slain man was wanted for “smuggling arms and explosives to the terrorist Daesh organization,” an army statement said.