Cleric Shot to Death in His Hasbayya Shop
Sheikh Salman al-Harfani on Wednesday evening was found dead in his textile shop in Hasbayya, the National News Agency reported.
“Medical investigation revealed that the cleric has received five gunshots from a 5 mm caliber pistol,” it elaborated.
Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Naim Hassan condemned the incident, calling on concerned authorities to reveal the circumstances behind it and try the perpetrators.
Dar al-Fatwa clerics Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran were attacked in the predominantly Shiite area of Khandaq al-Ghamiq earlier in March while two other clerics, one of them identified as Omar al-Imami, were attacked in the southern Beirut suburb of Shiyyah.
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