Ersal residents held on Saturday funerals of militants killed in Syria a day earlier, as they prevented security forces from examining one of the corpses, al-Manar reported.

Ersal residents held on Saturday funerals of militants killed in Syria a day earlier, as they prevented security forces from examining one of the corpses, al-Manar reported.

According to local sources in the Bekaaist town, Omar al-Atrash, who is accused of carrying several attacks against civilians and Lebanese army across the country, was killed on Friday in the Syrian area of Nehmat, on the Lebanese-Syrian borders.

Al-Atrash was accompanied by at least one person, Sami al-Houjairi, sources said, adding that their car was either targeted by a rocket or by an explosive device planted in their car.

Al-Manar quoted local and security sources as saying that residents of Ersal had prevented security forces from examining one of the corpses, adding that an absentee funeral prayer was held for the second person killed.

The corpse, which was escorted to grave was likely for al-Houjairi, because the corpse of al-Atrash had turned into scattered body parts, sources added.

Al-Atrash is accused of carrying out Bir al-Abed and Ruwais blasts, murdering the Lebanese army soldiers in Ersal and planning for launching rockets onto the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahiyeh).