(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was stoned to death by two men in the Lebanese Naema town in Chouf region, activists said Sunday.
No more details have been revealed about the killing of Abdul Rahman al-Akari, 31, father of three children.
Revenge attacks and violence against Syrians have become more common and gruesome in the past few years.
The Mediterranean country of around 4.5 million people says it hosts some 1.5 million Syrians, of which nearly a million are UN-registered refugees.
Lebanese politicians routinely blame the country's economic and other woes on Syrian refugees and the government has ratcheted up the pressure to send them back.
Rights groups have decried measures to make the lives of refugees increasingly difficult.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 380,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighboring countries.
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