Lebanon: Funerals of Damascus Blast Martyrs Held in Different Areas

The southern suburb of Beirut, Nabatiyeh and Bekaa on Monday bid farewell to the martyrs of the blast that targeted a convoy carrying pilgrims in Damascus yesterday.

Martyr Mohammad Hassan Ayoub was buried in Tayouneh cemetery, while Mohammad Ahmad Moqdad was laid to rest in Ouzai graveyard, NNA reported.

For his part, Martyr Qassem Fahd Hatoum was buried in Radouf, while martyr Sheikh Mahdi Youssef Moqdad was inhumed in Rawdat al-Shahidayn in Ghobeiry, according to NNA.

Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, bid farewell to martyr Shadi Taleb Houmani.

In the same context, martyr Abbas Balouk's funeral was held in Baalbek.

6 Lebanese martyrs and 22 injured were claimed in a terrorist bombing which targeted on Sunday a bus at a parking lot in the neighborhood of al-Kallaseh in Damascus.

The bus was transporting Lebanese pilgrims from the shrine of Sayyeda Ruqayya (AS) to that of Sayyeda Zainab (AS), when an explosive device, planted in the vehicle at the parking lot, was detonated.