3 Syrian army personnel were killed in an ambush for Hezbollah

3 Syrians were killed, reported that they were from the public security soldiers, near the border with Lebanon in a shooting incident, which was confused about its causes, while the Lebanese security services opened an investigation into the accident.

The media quoted Lebanese security sources as saying that the three “entered the Lebanese territories before their killing and the army took over their bodies and handed them over to the Syrian side through the official Josis crossing,” stressing that “the matter is linked to smuggling gangs.”

It was suggested that the Syrian security men were chasing smugglers in those overlapping lands on the border, and gunfire occurred, killing them.

The Lebanese National Media Agency reported that the Lebanese Red Cross transferred 3 bodies found near the dirt curtain in the Lebanese border town of Al -Qasr with Syria to Hermel Governmental Hospital (northeastern Lebanon), and the security services undertake the investigation of the incident.

She pointed to “a state of tension on the border north of Hermel and gunfire from a medium weapon from the Syrian lands towards the palace.”

For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Defense stated that 3 of its members were killed by Hezbollah, stressing that it will “take all necessary measures after” the dangerous escalation “by Hezbollah.

The Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted the media office of the Ministry of Defense as saying that “a group of Hezbollah militia) through an ambush kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Lebanese border (…) before they took them to Lebanese territory and liquidated them.”

Hezbollah said, in a statement, that it has nothing to do with the events that took place on the Lebanese -Syrian border.

And Syrian sites have stated that the dead were members of the Ministry of Defense and withdrew their bodies to the Lebanese interior. It was attributed to a source from the Syrian Public Security in Al -Qusayr as saying that they are from the elite forces from the Syrian Army’s 103rd Brigade within the Lebanese territories, and that they entered Lebanese territory error during the chase of armed men and smugglers.