Brother, Nieces of Owner of Phone Number on STL List Killed in Texas
A Lebanese man and his two daughters were gunned down in mysterious circumstances in the U.S. state of Texas, media reports said on Thursday.
Rouhad Ezzeddine, who is in his forties, was found shot to death along with his two daughters Zainab and Leila at their house in Texas.
The family hails from the southern town of Kafra.
Al-Jadeed television revealed on Thursday evening that Rouhad Ezzeddine is the brother of M. Ezzeddine, whose phone number was included in the list of numbers that were used in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
M. Ezzeddine confirmed that he has owned the phone number that ends with 967 since 2002, according to al-Jadeed.
The number was mentioned in the list of phone numbers presented in the trying session of the four suspects accused of assassinating Hariri at The Hague.
These numbers are owned by Lebanese nationals and were put in service a while before Hariri's assassination.
The incident comes day after Lebanese woman Assil Ali Srour, 20, from the southern town of Batoulieh was killed in mysterious circumstances in the the state of Michigan in the United States.
On Tuesday LBCI television reported that Hussein al-Saghir, 30, from the southern town of al-Khrayeb was also killed in the United States.
He was shot during a robbery at a gas station in the city of Chicago where he works with his brother.
His brother survived the crime.
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