Bahrain warns citizens against travel to Lebanon

Dubai: Bahrain on Sunday urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Lebanon and advised those already in the country to leave immediately for their safety.

“Due to the current conditions and developments in Lebanon, the foreign ministry asks citizens present in Lebanon to leave immediately and exercise extreme caution,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

It warned its citizens to avoid travelling to Lebanon “for their own safety and to avoid any dangers they might encounter”.

It gave no further details on the nature of any threat.

Its warning came a day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation. Manama has declared Hezbollah a terrorist group and repeatedly accused it of involvement in violent attacks in the tiny Gulf kingdom.

Meanwhile, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al Awsat reported on Sunday that Western intelligence agencies warned Hariri of an assassination plot against him. It cited unnamed sources close to Hariri.