Sunday Times: Mossad killed Mugniyah

Sunday Times quotes Israeli sources as saying top Hezbollah commander was assassinated by Mossad agents who replaced his jeep's headrest with booby-trapped one.

Mossad agents assassinated top Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah in Damascus by replacing the headrest of the driver’s seat in his car with another containing a small high-explosive charge, the Sunday Times quoted an Israeli intelligence sources as saying.

A witness to the killing told the newspaper, “I held his head in my hands, kissed him farewell. His face was burnt but intact and he had received serious injuries to his abdomen.”

According to its report, three Mossad agents who entered Syria loaded a car they had rented with explosives and detonated it beside Mugniyah's Mitsubishi Pajero jeep.

After successfully completing their mission, the agents headed immediately to the airport and left the country en route to Tel Aviv.