Syrian killed after Lebanese Army shoots on vehicle 'posing imminent danger' at border
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LAF says vehicle had entered Lebanon from Syria through illegal crossing
A Syrian woman was killed when the Lebanese Army opened fire at a vehicle that refused to stop on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
The army said it encountered a vehicle “with vision-obscuring glass and without licence plates” that had crossed from Syria illegally and sought to evade a Lebanese Armed Forces checkpoint in the border town of Arsal.
“Its driver attempted to run over the checkpoint personnel, posing an imminent danger to their safety, forcing them to fire warning shots to compel it to stop,” the LAF said.
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