Mikati deplores attack on US embassy, follows up on incident with security apparatuses

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati followed up on the shooting incident at the entrance of the US Embassy in Awkar. 

The PM made a series of contacts with the leaders of the country’s security apparatuses, with whom he review the available data about the incident and requested stringent measures whilst probing the incident and unearthing its circumstances.

Moreover, Mikati stressed that "the protection of diplomatic missions in Lebanon is something that cannot be compromised at all; no one is allowed to resume old patterns of sending political messages, a thing which made the Lebanese suffer lot."

The PM also affirmed that the security apparatuses were on alert to unveil the circumstances which have led to this heinous incident.