Lebanon: Syrian Journalist Assassinated, Roadside Bomb Injures 2 near Masnaa

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The Syrian political journalist Mohammad Jemo was shot dead in south Lebanon early Wednesday.

The assassination took place in the southern coastal town of Sarafand.
In details, gunmen attacked Jemo as he was entering his home in the town at 2:30 am, and shot him. The journalist's two bodyguards were also wounded in the incident.

Jemo, an outspoken supporter of the Syrian regime, was married to a Lebanese woman and resided in Sarafand. He is head of the political and international relations in the Global Arab Expatriates Organization.

The sources said Jemo was carrying shopping bags from his car into the house when he was shot.
His Lebanese wife, Siham Younnis, was still by the car, carrying more bags from the trunk when the attack took place.

"I heard a lot of shooting, but I thought it was far," Younis stated.
"But when I walked into the house I saw my husband dying in a pool of blood," she said, sobbing.
Jemo's daughter, 17-year-old Fatima, was sleeping in her bedroom at the time of the shooting.

In another security incident, a roadside bomb exploded in East Lebanon on Tuesday injuring two men travelling in a convoy of vehicles, state news reported.
Lebanon's National News Agency said Hussein Ali Deir and Fadi Abdul Karim were rushed to a hospital after the explosion hit their SUV on a road near the Masnaa border crossing to Syria.

Instantly, army forces cordoned off the area, while the military expert and police forces arrived at the scene to launch a probe into the incident- under the supervision concerned judiciary- to unveil details of the blast and determine the identity of perpetrators.

The attack comes one week after a car bomb injured more than 50 people in a southern Beirut suburb.

Pictures from the scene of Tuesday's attack showed black smoke rising from the targeted cars. The windscreen of one of the vehicles was smashed.
Several small roadside bombs have been set off near the Syrian border crossing in recent months.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team