( CNN ) -- Lebanon says it deployed troops near its border with Syria Sunday after artillery shells hit a Lebanese border village . One person was killed after shells from Syria hit the town of Qasr , the Lebanese Army said in a statement . Several homes were destroyed , and three people were injured , the military said . `` Subsequently , army units were deployed widely across the area and took measures in the field necessary to protect people and respond to the source of the attack as appropriate , '' the statement said . The Lebanese military did not release additional details about the incident . Lebanon 's National News Agency reported that a 13-year-old was killed when rockets from Syria hit the region Sunday . Lebanese President Michel Suleiman condemned the violence , saying in a statement on his website that rockets had fallen near Qasr 's mosque . `` These kinds of acts have only resulted in the deaths of innocent Lebanese who have nothing to do with the ongoing conflict taking place outside their country , '' he said . The war in Syria has been raging since March 2011 when protesters , partly inspired by Arab Spring uprisings in the region , began demonstrating for more freedom . That movement quickly morphed into a movement against President Bashar al-Assad , who was appointed president by Syria 's parliament in 2000 after his father died . The government responded with a brutal crackdown . In February , the United Nations estimated that 70,000 people had been killed in the fighting . At least 124 people were killed in violence throughout Syria on Sunday , the Local Coordination Committees opposition network said . CNN can not independently verify death tolls or other accounts of violence in Syria .
Lebanon 's military says shells from Syria hit a border town . The Syrian army said it fired back at the Israeli jets, but Israel denied firing on its neighbor. Lebanese state media says a 13-year-old was killed when rockets hit the region .