Ex-MP and former head of the Arab Democratic Party, Ali Eid, has died in Syria, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Friday.
LBCI television said Eid, 75, passed away in the Syrian coastal city of Tartus, a bastion of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Later in the day, NNA said Eid's coffin arrived at his house in the Akkar town of Hikr al-Daheri on Syria's border after being transferred from the Bassel Assad Hospital in Tartus where the ex-MP had been receiving treatment.
The casket was received in Hikr al-Daheri by “senior officials of the Arab Democratic Party, municipal chiefs, mayors and a number of dignitaries from the towns of villages of Akkar's plain, in addition to members of the Eid family.”
Supporters fired heavily in the air and launched fireworks upon the coffin's arrival, the agency added.
Eid's funeral will be held at noon Saturday at the Sheikh Abdullah al-Daheri Shrine "on the Syrian bank of the Grand River in the Hikr al-Daheri region," NNA said.