Boy Killed as Gunfire from Syria Targets Film Crew in Bekaa

A teenager was killed and another was wounded by gunshots fired from Syria towards an area between Chamsine and Kfar Zabad in the Bekaa region.

“Syrian teenager Bassel Kazem Bakr, 13, was killed by gunshots fired from the Syrian side of the border towards an area between Chamsine and Kfar Zabad near the Syrian border,” LBCI television reported.

“A group of Beirut Arab University students were filming a documentary about Kurds in the region's barren mountains when the teenager Bassel lost his way and strayed away from the filming crew. He was then killed by gunshots fired from Syria as he approached the border,” LBCI added.

Meanwhile, Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5) identified the dead teenager as Bassel Kazem Bakr and the wounded as Jamil Hesso, saying they are both Kurds who were taking part in a documentary that was being filmed by Lebanese students in the Chamsine valley.

Lebanon's National News Agency said Syrian teenager Bassel al-Bakr, 14, was wounded by a gunshot fired from Syria “while he was standing at the Chamsine water purification station in the Anjar area, two kilometers from the Lebanese-Syrian border.”