The horrifying news got exposed when a security source told AFP, that two rockets fired from an unknown location burst forth violently early on Friday outside Beirut, characterized by one landing just metres from an entrance to the presidential palace. The sources added that the two rockets landed in Baabda yet there were no casualties. No further details were offered.

According to an AFP photographer, one rocket fell in the garden of a house located just 100 metres (330 feet) from the secondary entrance of the palace. Official news agency ANI said the second rocket fell near a Lebanese army training camp in the region of Baabda, approximately eight kilometres southeast of the capital.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)