BAZZALIEH, Lebanon: Sadness engulfed the Bekaa Valley town of Bazzalieh Friday as they prepared to bury a policeman killed by the Nusra Front while in captivity.
Residents and relatives showered Sgt. Ali Bazzal’s motorcade with rice and flowers as it reached the town around 1 p.m.
The devastated father, waiting for the body of his slain son, broke down in tears as the casket arrived home in Bazzalieh.
From there, the Lebanese flag-draped coffin was taken to the town’s Husseinieh for a funeral service before burial.
The Lebanese Army Thursday retrieved the body of 27-year-old Bazzal, who was shot dead by Nusra militants last December.
Bazzal is survived by a wife and young daughter.
The Nusra Front and ISIS still hold 25 policemen and Lebanese soldiers hostage since a brief incursion into the northeastern border town of Arsal last August.
Negotiations to free the captives, held in Arsal’s outskirts, have reportedly stalled and their families are now holding an open-ended sit-in in Downtown Beirut to pressure the Lebanese government to hasten their release.
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