Gunmen have opened fire on the convoy of a Lebanese minister in a mountain village near Beirut, killing two of his guards and wounding another, in what he called an assassination attempt.
Saleh al-Gharib, the minister of state handling refugee issues, told local TV he was heading to the mountain village of Qabr Shamoun when his convoy came under fire on Sunday, Al Jazeera reports.
"What happened was an armed ambush and a clear assassination attempt," al-Gharib said in an interview with Lebanon's al-Jadeed TV.