Future Party bloc MP Khaled Daher’s bodyguards opened fire at an iftar dinner held by the Muslim Scholars’ Assembly in Akkar.

The Muslim Scholars’ Assembly coordinator in North Lebanon, Sheikh Abdul Salam Al-Harrash had held Wednesday a fast breaking dinner in his residence in Akkar. However, in a short time the scene turned from a pleasant one into a violent one, as members of the Future party attacked the place and randomly opened fire at the people.

The attacks caused the injury of four people, who where instantly transferred to the hospitals.

One of the injured guests Bassam Al-Mahmoud told media: “We were in the iftar dinner, we started hearing gun fire but we didn’t know from where it came, then I was suddenly injured along with several others.”

“I was injured in my back and chest, but they were actually targeting the table that former MPs Wajih Ba’arini and Karim Al-Rassi were on,” he added.

The iftar dinner attendees assured that the Future party have planned and prepared for this attack previously, while regional authorities in Akkar as well as the residents strongly condemned it.

Media reports quoted Sheikh Abdul Salam Al-Harrash as saying: “These armed groups that we see day and night are trying to destroy civil peace and coexistence, and are trying directly and indirectly to pressure those who took a patriotic stance and supported the resistance.”

For his part, former MP Wajih Al-Ba’arini said in a press conference that “those criminals who confederate the CIA and the Israeli enemy are doing such things in a desperate attempt to regain an authority that they have lost due to their failed criminal policies.”

In parallel, well-informed sources indicated that those who committed this crime were the bodyguards of Future party MP Khaled Daher, who are known among the citizens in Akkar for their criminal acts.

The Lebanese army traced the rioters and arrested four suspects; however, two more are still at large, according to the army.