Beirut/Damascus, April 25 -- Eight Syrian refugees were injured on Thursday when a booby-trapped drone exploded on a farm in the eastern Lebanese town of Hosh Al-Sayyid Ali, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA).

The NNA reported that the drone was rigged and detonated near the Syrian border, adding that the eight wounded Syrians had been transported to hospitals in Lebanon's eastern city of Hermel.

Also on Thursday, Syrian authorities accused Lebanon's Hezbollah militia of firing artillery shells at Syrian army positions near the town of Al-Qusayr in western Syria's Homs province.

Five shells were launched from Lebanese territory toward Syrian army positions in the Al-Qusayr area, and the army responded by targe...