Pro-Assad Syrian official killed in Lebanon

Mr Jamo was a strong defender of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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A senior Syrian official, Mohammed Darrar Jamo, has been shot dead in
the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand.
Mr Jamo, a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was attacked early
on Wednesday morning as he entered his house.
Lebanese sources say gunmen opened fire on him but left his wife, who was
with him at the time, unharmed.
The attack is being seen as the latest sign of how the conflict in Syria is
threatening to destabilise Lebanon.
The Syrian state news agency, Sana, said Mohammed Darrar Jamo was head
of the political and international relations division of the International
Organisation for Arab Immigrants.
He had also frequently appeared as a political expert on Arabic-language
television channels, defending President Assad.
Hezbollah involvement
Clashes between groups backing different sides in Syria's civil war have
become increasingly common in Lebanon.
On Tuesday, a convoy carrying members of the Lebanese Shia militant group
Hezbollah was hit by a roadside bomb near the Syrian border.
The blast hit a vehicle not far from the Masnaa border crossing, on a key route
between Beirut and Damascus, killing one person and wounding two others.
Officials were unable to confirm whether the dead man was a member of
Hezbollah.
Several other vehicles have also been attacked recently in the same area.
One of the blasts injured two Lebanese soldiers. The explosions took place in
the Bekaa region, considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
Last week a car bomb injured more than 50 people in a southern suburb of the
capital, Beirut - an area controlled by Hezbollah. In late May, rockets were
fired in the same district.