A member of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch was assassinated Friday in the restive northeastern border town of Arsal, Lebanon, state-run National News Agency reported.
“Syrian militants belonging a terrorist group shot dead ISF First Adjutant Zaher Ezzeddine outside his house in the Arsal area of al-Babain,” NNA said.
Ezzeddine was in his car when the gunmen opened fire, the agency noted.
LBCI television said the security agent was shot dead in front of his family.
MTV meanwhile said the militants likely belong to Daesh.
Militants from Daesh and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front are entrenched in mountainous regions along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border.
The Lebanese army regularly shells their positions and Hezbollah fighters have engaged in clashes with them on the Syrian side of the border.
