Lebanon army raids Syrian refugee camps

But Interior Minister Nuhad Mashnuq said the attackers who carried out on Monday’s violence had come from inside Syria, not refugee settlements nearby.

 “We are worried that there are more terrorists, so the Lebanese army is searching the area,” said Bashir Matar, mayor of Al-Qaa, which lies in a hilly border area shaken by violence since the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

 Five people were killed and 15 wounded when four suicide bombers attacked the village before dawn on Monday. A second wave of attacks hit Al-Qaa on Monday night. Another four suicide bombers wounded 13 people. Al-Qaa lies on a main road linking the Syrian town of Al-Qusayr to Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley.

 Its 3,000 residents are predominantly Christian, but the Masharia Al-Qaa district is home to Sunni Muslims and some 30,000 Syrian refugees live in a makeshift camp on the edge of the village.