Transporter of Bourj Barajneh Bombers Killed in Syria
The man who transported the Bourj al-Barajneh suicide bombers to Lebanon was killed in an ambush by the Syrian army and Hizbullah fighters in Syria, reports said.
“The transporter of the suicide bombers was killed in an operation carried out by the Syrian security apparatus and Hizbullah inside Syria's territory,” al-Manar TV confirmed.
Media reports said the assailant is known as Abdul Salam Abdul Razzaq al-Hindawi.
LBCI said that Hindawi was ambushed in an area that falls under the power of the Islamic State group in Reef Homs.
He is one of the main figures who coordinate and transport suicide bombers from the Syrian al-Raqqa to Lebanon, it added.
On November 12, two suicide attacks rocked a busy shopping street in Beirut's southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, killing 43 people and wounding over 239 others.
The extremist Islamic State group claimed the attack.
Security measures were intensified afterward and police were able to dismantle terror cells and arrest several Islamic State members involved in planning, executing, transporting the explosives and suicide bombers to Lebanon.
On Wednesday, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged 26 people with belonging to the IS extremist group among them are 13 detainees who are linked to the bombing.
The suspects are charged with receiving orders from IS “prince” Abou al-Walid al-Souri and with planning to carry out terrorist attacks and bombings in various Lebanese regions.
In addition, they were charged with transporting explosive material, explosive vests, weapons, and ammunition and hiding them in various apartments in Beirut and the North and transporting suicide bombers and recruiting members for the IS.
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