The funeral procession for slain al-Jadeed television cameraman Ali Shaaban was held on Tuesday at his hometown of Maifadoun in southern Lebanon. 

 A number of politicians, local residents, media personalities welcomed the casket as it arrived at the town. The funeral was attended by a representative of the president, prime minister, and speaker MP Abdul Latif al-Zein, Hizbullah chief representative MP Hassan Fadlallah, AMAL representative Jamil Hayek, representative for the information minister Hassan Falaha, as well as representatives for all political parties, reported the National News Agency.

Shaaban was killed on Monday in the northern border area of Wadi Khaled when he and two of his colleagues came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. Reporter Hussein Khreis and cameraman Abed Khayyat managed to escape unharmed. The TV network said the crew was in the area with the aim of filming a report about the situation there. [Naharnet]