BEIRUT: A Lebanese man fatally shot his attacker after seizing his rifle during an attack at his Beirut home in which he was shot Wednesday night, a security source said.

The source told The Daily Star that 70-year-old Butros Abdo, armed with a shotgun, entered Avedis Kassibian’s house in the Sin el-Fil neighborhood of Beirut late Wednesday and shot Kassibian in the leg.

Kassibian managed to snatch the rifle from Abdo, striking him in the chest and legs.

Both men were admitted to hospital and Abdo died of his wounds Thursday.

The motive behind the attack was not immediately known, the security source told The Daily Star.

In a separate incident, a woman was shot and wounded in the foot at her home in Aramoun, south of Beirut, according to the source.

He said Rana Sleiman Jamaleddine was wounded by her husband’s pistol.  Rana, however, told police she “accidentally” received gunshot to the left foot.