BAALBEK, Lebanon: Hundreds of relatives, friends and sympathizers of 1st Lt. Ahmad Mahmoud Tabikh gathered for his funeral in east Lebanon Saturday, a day after he was killed fighting ISIS militants near the Syrian border.
The body of Tabikh, 28, was carried out of Dar al-Amal University Hospital in the Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek, where fellow soldiers waited to begin the ceremony to honor their fallen comrade.
Some soldiers played snare drums as others carried the Lebanese-draped coffin to a vehicle that departed to the soldier's nearby hometown of Douris.
The soldier’s mother, dressed in black from head to toe, wept over a man carrying a large portrait of her son, who was killed in a jihadi attack on an Army outpost on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek Friday.
The attack sparked 16 hours of fighting between the military and ISIS. Seven other soldiers and more than 40 militants were killed in the battle.
In addition to Tabikh, the Army announced the deaths of Sgt. Mohammad Niazi Nasreddine, 32, soldier Bilal Khodor Ahmad, 29, soldier Mohammad Ali Alaaeddine, 20, and soldier Hasan Ramadan Deeb, 23, in a statement Friday night.
The identities of three soldiers whose bodies were found Saturday morning in the battlefield are yet to be revealed.
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