Suspected 'Suicide Bomber' Held in Tripoli, 2 Suspects in Arsal
The army on Tuesday arrested a Lebanese man in the northern city of Tripoli on suspicion that he was plotting to carry out a suicide bombing, while two other people were captured in Bekaa's Arsal after trying to cross into its outskirts.
The army said in an official statement that its forces arrested “in Tripoli's al-Mankoubeen area the citizen Bassam Hussam Naboush on suspicion that he is a would-be suicide bomber.”
The arrest operation comes two days after the double suicide blasts at a cafe in Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen which killed 9 people and wounded more than 37. The suicide attack was carried out by two residents of the al-Mankoubeen area.
The National News Agency had reported in the afternoon that “an army force carried out raids in al-Beddawi's Wadi al-Nahle area and entered some houses in search for fugitives.”
The military forces are still closing all the entrances that lead to Wadi al-Nahle, NNA said.
Al-Beddawi municipal chief Hassam Ghamrawi stressed that “the people of a-Beddawi and al-Mankoubeen have nothing to do with the criminal acts.”
”We are the residents of the same area alongside the people of Jabal Mohsen and their tragedy is ours,” he added.
Meanwhile, the army announced in the same statement the arrest of “the Lebanese Ziad Abdul Karim al-Hujeiri and the Syrian Khaled Abdullah Badran at the Wadi Hmeid checkpoint in Arsal.”
They were riding a white Kia with a Syrian license plate while carrying no registration papers.
The two men were arrested “after they attempted to infiltrate into Arsal's outskirts after disregarding the instructions of the soldiers at the checkpoint,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, NNA reported that the troops opened fire in order to arrest them.
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