BEIRUT: Hundreds of mourners, some firing weapons into the air, carried the flag-draped coffin of soldier Mohammad Ali Yaseen through an ordinarily quiet south Lebanon village Sunday after he was shot dead by militants the country's restive north the day before.
Women dressed in black wailed in grief as the family passed his body through their home in Kfar Tibnit for a last time.
“You must avenge his death and avenge all the other martyrs,” Yaseen’s uncle, Ahmad, told uniformed soldiers who took part in the funeral.
Umm Hashem, Yaseen’s neighbor, addressed the women in the funeral march telling them not to cry.
“Don’t cry. Ululate, because he fought takfiris and that is enough to call him a sergeant,” she said.
Yaseen was killed in a militant ambush in the village of Mhamra in Dinnieh Saturday.
Security sources told The Daily Star that gunmen approached Yaseen and another soldier and shot at them, instantly killing one of them in the Mhamra.
The second soldier later died of wounds he sustained in the attack, the sources said, adding that the gunmen then fled into the tiny streets of Mhamra.
Two soldiers and a number of others were wounded in the clash. The Army pursued the militants and killed several gunmen.
The two incidents happened as the Lebanese Army battled ISIS-inspired militants in the northern city of Tripoli. The fighting erupted Friday evening after gunmen fired at soldiers near the city’s old souks.
The attack was reportedly in respons to the arrest of an alleged ISIS commander the military detained Thursday during a raid in Dinnieh.
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