BEIRUT (CNN) -- Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot and killed by assassins Tuesday in Beirut, senior Lebanese government officials said.

Gemayel was a member of the Christian Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority.

The Lebanese government is currently locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.

Saad Hariri, the majority leader in parliament, blamed Syria for the killing saying Damascus wants to stop the Lebanese government from backing a U.N. International Tribunal into alleged Syrian participation in the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

"Pierre Gemayel was one of the people who was one of the founders also of the revolution, and today, as we have warned the international community that our revolution is under attack," Hariri said.