They tended his wounds and helped another elderly resident of the village who was also injured in the fighting.

NPR: A Christian Village in Lebanon

's International Labour Organization, three Afghan civilians, four Afghan policemen and two Nepalese Gurkha guards were among those injured in the fighting, Afghan and U.N. officials said.

WSJ: Taliban Assault Shakes Kabul

In the latest fighting in Mogadishu, hundreds more people have been shot dead or injured, and tens of thousands displaced.

ECONOMIST: Jihadists attack Somalia

Government forces lost some 250 soldiers in the fighting, and another 700 were injured.

CNN: From Our Correspondent: Kumaratunga Under Siege

Medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said it had received numerous reports of people being killed or injured in Konna, and that in Douentza, bombardments and fighting were preventing the wounded from making it to hospital.

BBC: Mali Islamists seize town amid French intervention

In the action it is said that he feared he would be killed, injured, taken captive or stranded after fighting broke out between various factions during his trip to Beirut in 2008.

BBC: Tayside and Central Scotland