Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for...

Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for killing a man and his son in Metn in 1999. Four accomplices, also Syrians, were handed down prison terms in the same case. Badr Mayhoub Mayhoub, 32, and Yasser Mohammed Ali, 27, gunned down Joseph and Elie Sarkis in Qornet al-Hamra in a dispute over salaries, Mount Lebanon's Criminal Court ruled.