Report: Two Wounded in Arsal Blast Smuggled out of Hospital
One of the two Syrians killed on Thursday in a blast in the Bekaa border town of Arsal is likely an Islamic State militant, while two of the wounded were smuggled outside the hospital where they were getting treatment, the pan Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Saturday.
A senior Lebanese security source who spoke on condition of anonymity told the daily that one of two Syrians killed in the blast that ripped through a pickup truck in Arsal is likely a member of the IS militant group.
Two of the wounded who were transported to a field hospital on the outskirts of Arsal after the blast were later smuggled outside the town.
Hawwa al-Zuhouri, 20, and Nour al-Husseiki, 25 who hail from the Syrian town of Qusayer, were killed on Thursday by the accidental detonation of a suicide vest that Husseiki was wearing.
A Lebanese woman from the Kranbi family and two other Syrians who hail from Qusayr were also wounded in the blast.
The five were taken to a clinic controlled by Syrian militants outside the town, officials had added.
Transferring the two wounded while they were receiving treatment at a hospital, is an intent to spare them from being investigated, and a bid to cover the identity of the sides behind the blast, said the daily.
Semi-official Lebanese sources told al-Hayat that the mere presence of a belt indicates that they belong to a suicide group likely the IS.
The sources did not rule out a direct relationship with the recent disagreements between groups of the IS which soon developed into family disputes that prompted those in the car to prepare the belt to blow it up with their opponents.
Members of al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria and the Islamic State group control areas between Arsal and the Syrian border where the explosion occurred.
The two groups often clash in the area.
Source: Naharnet
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