Attackers opened fire on Friday at 4:45 a.m. on a military bus transporting troops in Bireh-Akkar and resulted in the death of soldier Jean Al-Hashem, the Lebanese Army directorate said.

Attackers opened fire on Friday at 4:45 a.m. on a military bus transporting troops in Bireh-Akkar and resulted in the death of soldier Jean Al-Hashem, the Lebanese Army directorate said.

Instantly the Army cordoned off the area and carried out raids in search for perpetrators in a bid to arrest and drag them to justice.

In the same context, another soldier, Jamal Aashek got injured at dawn as unidentified persons shot at an Army patrol in Zahriye.

The wounded soldier has been transferred to a nearby hospital in Zgharta for treatment.

For its part, the army arrested three Lebanese citizens and 41 Syrian nationals during wide raids it carried out on a number of Syrian refugees' camps in the town of Khirbet Daoud and other hideouts of fire shooters, on suspicion of committing security violations, Army Command-Guidance Directorate said in a communiqué on Friday.

Various sorts of military materiel were seized in the possession of the arrested persons, who were handed over to the concerned judiciary for further investigation.