A veteran Lebanese Forces official has been abducted and killed in the southern town of Ain Ebel, his hometown, CCTV footage and a forensic doctor’s report said, days after reports said that the man had died in a traffic accident.

“The forensic doctor’s report says that Elias Hasrouni was strangled and hit with a gun butt on the head and on his rib cage, which resulted in the fracture of his ribs and their penetration of a lung, before the body was thrown near the car’s location,” al-Jadeed reported on Wednesday.

The CCTV footage shows two SUVs encircling Hasrouni’s vehicle and individuals getting out of them and entering the man’s vehicle before the three cars drive away.

Kataeb Leader Samy Gemayel described Hasrouni as a “heroic resistance fighter” who was treacherously killed “in a militia operation in his town Ain Ebel.”

 "May God have mercy on the heroic resistance fighter Elias Hasrouni, who was treacherously killed in a militia operation in his beloved hometown of Ain Ebel, which he loved and was loved by," Gemayel wrote on "X" platform, formerly known as Twitter.

“We will not condemn or demand to know the truth as it is obvious in a well-known security area. Yesterday in Majdal, today in Ain Ebel, and tomorrow in any region of Lebanon! The country is hijacked, the Lebanese are hostages and we are in a state of resilience and resistance,” he noted.