Tripoli, Lebanon: Unidentified assailants set fire to Syrian refugee tents in northern Lebanon Sunday for the second time in as many days after a day of incitement against Syrians in the country sparked by the execution of a captive policeman.
A security source told The Daily Stary that the tents, located in the town of Mashha in Akkar, housed a number of Syrian refugee families.
No casualties were registered.
Akkar Mayor, Zakaria al-Zoghbi, condemned the attack and called on political and security forces to identify and arrest the criminals, according to the state-run National News Agency.
This is the second time in two days that Syrian refugees residing in the town of have been targeted by unknown assailants.
Syrian refugee tents were also burned earlier Saturday, after a statement was issued by local residents demanding Syrians leave the village.
Tensions between refugees and Lebanese host communities heightened after the family of a policeman killed by the Nusra Front vowed Saturday to prevent aid from reaching Syrian refugees.
During a press conference, the family of Ali Bazzal, a policeman killed by the Nusra Front Friday, described Syrians living in Arsal, the northeastern region bordering Syria, as “a bunch of terrorist, takfiris and not refugees, and that was evident when they attacked the Army in Arsal.”
“We will not allow any international or local organization to transport aid to these terrorists ... and anyone who block a road in solidarity with them will be supporting terrorists.”
Hours after the Nusra Front announced that it had executed Bazzal in a tweet with a picture of a man said to be of the captive with a machine gun firing shots at his head, residents of Bazzalieh kidnapped three men near the town.
The kidnappers shot and wounded a Syrian man who accompanied the three. He was transferred to a Baalbek hospital.
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