Landmine Wounds Lebanese Man on Syria-Lebanon Border
Lebanese citizen Khaled al-Youssef was wounded on Sunday when he stepped on a landmine planted by the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
Youssef, who suffered a severe leg injury according to NNA, was rushed by a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance to the Our Lady of Peace Hospital in the northern town of al-Qbayyat.
The agency said the landmine exploded on the Syrian side of the border with the northern Lebanese town of al-Kneisseh, Youssef’s hometown.
Faced with an anti-regime uprising, the Syrian army in November laced the Lebanese border with landmines in a bid to curb arms smuggling and to hamper army defectors and refugees from fleeing.
Syrian troops have also staged deadly incursions into border villages in Lebanon.
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