TRIPOLI, Lebanon: A pro-Hezbollah Sunni Sheikh was shot and killed Tuesday by a masked gunman in Tripoli, security sources said, adding to the already tense environment in the northern city.
A security source told The Daily Star that one of two gunmen on a motorcycle shot Sheikh Saadeddine Ghiyyeh in the head, neck, shoulder and chest.
Ghiyyeh was transferred to Sayidet al-Hayat Hospital in Zghorta where he died later of his wounds, a source at the hospital told The Daily Star.