Assailants Open Fire on Sheikh Abbas Zgheib's Vehicle
Police on Friday inspected the car of Sheikh Abbas Zgheib after he claimed that assailants fired on it in Beirut's southern suburbs overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said officers from the Mraijeh police station and forensic experts inspected his Nissan Sunny and took two bullets that had penetrated the rear window and landed on the back seat.
Zgheib rose to prominence in 2013 when he was tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up the case of the abducted Lebanese pilgrims in Syria's Aazaz area.
The pilgrims were released in October of that year.
According to NNA, the sheikh told police that the car came under fire while it was parked near the building where he resides in Mraijeh.
No one was injured in the attack, he said.
Zgheib later told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that the case is now in the hands of the judiciary.
In January last year, the sheikh was accidentally wounded when an armed dispute erupted in al-Laylaki area in Beirut's southern suburbs.
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