2019 Tripoli shooting
2019 Tripoli shooting | |
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Location | Tripoli, Lebanon |
Date | 3 June 2019 23:30 |
Target | Police and soldiers |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapons | Gun and explosive |
Deaths | 5 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Victims | Two police officers and two soldiers |
On 3 June 2019, a gunman killed four security members—two police officers and two soldiers—in
Background
Lebanese authorities said that, after the
In December 2018, Lebanese authorities said the security forces had stopped a bombing plot by ISIS during the country's parliamentary elections.[2] The militant group used buckets of cheese to smuggle explosives from Syria into Lebanon. Attacks were planned against temples, Christian churches and places of worship, and military targets. Police uncovered the plot, codenamed "Lethal Cheese", after months of surveillance.[6]
ISIS and al-Qaeda have usually accepted responsibility for previous terrorist attacks in Lebanon.[7]
Incident
A gunman attacked a Lebanese Internal Security Forces (
Police opened fire and used tear gas against the unknown shooter, who then drove to a residential building. He entered the building and shot his way up its stairs and finally entered a fourth floor apartment which was empty.[7] Security forces and the shooter fought for about an hour, but the gunman was cornered and when he ran out of ammunition, he then blew himself up inside the apartment.[7][9] Parts of the nine-floor building, especially the fourth floor, were heavily damaged.[7]
The apartment's owner, Kamal Ferri, told reporters that nobody was inside the apartment when the gunman entered the building. He added the gunman entered his apartment after shooting at people in the street. He said,"Thank God there was nobody in the house, and my door is not made of steel, it is a wooden door so I think he broke the door and he walked in."[7]
Lebanon's
Reactions
President
Tripoli
The
Hezbollah has condemned the terrorist attack by a former Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) member in Tripoli, on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, saying: "terrorist groups ... do not respect the sanctity of religion and morality or values."[12]
The
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- ^ Hall, Richard (10 December 2018). "Isis smuggled explosives into Lebanon in buckets of cheese to carry out deadly attacks". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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- ^ "Bahrain Condemns Attack In Tripoli". Daily Tribune. 6 June 2019. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
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