Five dead after four ISIS suicide bombers blow themselves up in a Christian village in Lebanon near Syrian border

A group of four ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Christian village in Lebanon in killing five people and wounding at least 15. The National News Agency said the blasts occurred in Qaa, only a few hundred metres away from the Syrian border and that four men were involved in the rare multiple attack.

According to eye witnesses, villagers became suspicious of the men as they were passing through the village

around 4am local time.

When civilian security men who guard the village called out to them, they threw a hand grenade before successively blowing themselves up among civilians.

It was unclear why so many people were out on the street, but the villagers likely came out, drawn by the loudness of the grenade explosion.

Also, it was not immediately clear what exactly the attackers were planning to target. The explosions occurred about 150 meters away from a Lebanese customs border point.

Lebanon's Al-Manar news agency, which is owned by the militant group Hezbollah, said five people were killed and blamed the attack on ISIS.

Hezbollah has been fighting in Syria alongside President Bashar Assad's forces in the Syrian civil war, which has stoked sectarian tensions in Lebanon,  according to Mailonline

Previous attacks in Lebanon have been claimed by the ISIS.

It comes as Lebanese Christians in Qaa have taken up arms, setting up self-defense units to protect against potential attack by Muslim extremists from neighboring Syria.

The village of Qaa, which 44 miles north of the city of Baalbek, is home to a large number of Syrian refugees who have fled conflict in the wartorn country.