Suicide bombers target troops

– Seven Lebanese soldiers were wounded yesterday as five militants blew themselves up and a sixth threw a grenade during raids on two refugee camps near the border with Syria, the army said.

The civil war, which has raged in Syria since March 2011, has triggered an exodus of more than 1.1 million refugees into neighbouring Lebanon and has repeatedly spilt over.

Four of the suicide bombers struck in one camp near the border town of Arsal, wounding three soldiers, the army said. Troops recovered four explosive devices during the raid on the Al-Nur camp. – AFP