Two people were killed and three wounded when a Syrian truck ran into a house in east of Beirut late Thursday, local Naharnet news website reported on Friday.
A police report was quoted as saying that the truck with a Syrian license plate ran into a house belonging to the Semaha family near the Sayyad roundabout in Hazmiyeh, east of Beirut, after colliding with a car that was driven by Antoine Shartouni, aLebanese.
Shartouni's Renault 12 station wagon flipped upside-down, killing himself instantly, said the report, adding that the other victims was a Lebanese army soldier.
The police identified the truck driver as Ahmed Nour al-Khatib, a Syrian who has fled to an unknown destination. They said a manhunt was launched to arrest the suspect.
Source: Xinhua
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