A landmine left behind by extremist groups on Tuesday (March 6th) killed a Lebanese citizen and wounded two others in the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal, Lebanon’s Naharnet reported.
A man named as Burkan al-Hujeiri was killed and two others from the al-Hujeiri family were wounded when the landmine exploded on an agricultural route in al-Ajram area on the outskirts of Arsal, the National News Agency said.
The three were transferred to the Dar al-Rahma Hospital in Arsal.
Elements of the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) and the former al-Nusra Front (ANF) had been entrenched in the town's mountainous outskirts for several years before being ousted in Operation Fajr al-Juroud.
