The Lebanese army handed the bodies of two militants to their families in northeast Lebanon Friday, one day after the military killed them as they attempted to enter the town of Arsal.
The National News Agency reported that Army troops handed the corpses of Hussein Abdullah al-Rifai and Abdel-Rahman Bakkour to their families for them to be buried in Arsal.
A security source told The Daily Star that both Rifai and Bakkour were Syrian nationals.
The two militants were killed by army fire Thursday as they tried to cross from Arsal’s outskirts, where fundamentalist groups ISIS (Daesh) and the Nusra Front operate, to the town itself.
The army has been guarding the town by pounding militant movements on the outskirts since the deadly clashes with the two groups inside Arsal last August, which left 18 soldiers and 40 militants dead.
