Tue 21 April 2020:
At least nine people, including two children, have been shot dead by a lone gunman south of Beirut, according to a security source, in what is believed to be Lebanon’s deadliest mass shooting in recent history.
Among the dead were six men, two children and a woman. Six were Syrian and three Lebanese, the source added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the matter.
Baakline Mayor Abdullah al-Ghussaini said in a statement that the gunman had “fired indiscriminately from a hunting weapon”.
The attack occurred near a wooded area of Baakline where Syrian workers live.
Search for gunman under way.
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