2 Lebanese men killed in a car bomb in Syria
BEIRUT: Two Lebanese men were killed and a third was wounded in a car bomb Saturday night in a Syrian village on the Lebanese borders, a security source said.
The source said that Moammar Ahmad Zeaiter and Mohammad Khodor Zeaiter were killed in the blast, which occurred in the Syrian village of Huwayk in the Homs district.
The village, which is mostly populated by Lebanese, is located approximately 120 kilometers north of the Damascus, facing the Lebanese village of Qasr.
A third Lebanese man from Al-Jamal family was also severely wounded in the blast and is in a critical condition, the source added.
The National News Agency said that the car was detonated remotely after the two men were called by an unknown person to go outside their home and help the caller fill his car’s gasoline tank.
The Iranian Press TV reported on the incident, quoting a local Syrian official saying that “foreign-sponsored militants set off an explosives-laden car.”
The blast resulted in significant damage to the facades of a number of buildings in the area, the channel’s report said.