DOUEIR/BEIRUT: Angry masses mourning the deaths of six Lebanese Shiite pilgrims killed in a Damascus bus blast vowed revenge Monday during funerals across Lebanon.
“The terrorists are delusional if they think we will fall back quietly,” the father of Chadi Houmani, one of the blast victims, told The Daily Star during a funeral for his son in the south Lebanon town of Doueir.
“We have days where we will win, and the [terrorists] will have days where they will win, but their days are numbered.”
Sunday’s attack is believed to be linked to the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Islamist militants who have been targeting Lebanese Shiites over the past two years over Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian war.