BEIRUT: The U.S. State Department Friday urged its citizens to avoid all travel to Lebanon because of ongoing security concerns.

In a statement, the State Department said that U.S. citizens living and working in Lebanon should understand that they accept the risks of remaining in the country and should carefully consider those risks.

“In the past two years, two U.S. citizens have died in bombings, and two have been kidnapped, according to information available to the U.S. government,” the statement said.

Although there is no evidence that these attacks were directed specifically at U.S. citizens, there is a real possibility of being in the “wrong place, [at the] wrong time” it noted.

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