3 Arrested in Beirut Suburbs as Troops Continue Implementing Security Plan

Three fugitives were arrested on Monday in Beirut's suburbs on charges of opening fire, the army announced in a communique.

"An army force detained Mohammed Sharif Hashem in Haret Hreik for opening fire in the Shiyyah area (in Beirut's southern suburbs),” the communique said.

And Bashir Mohammed Zoaiter was held for exchanging fire using war guns, and hurling rocket-propelled grenades in al-Laylaki neighborhood, also in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Meanwhile in Sports City, Walid Khaled al-Ali was arrested.

“Al-Ali has several arrest warrants against him on charges of opening fire in Beirut and in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps,” the statement revealed.

"The three detainees were handed over to the relevant authorities.”

The arrests come as army troops and security forces have been implementing a security plan since April in the North, the Bekaa and Beirut.

The plan has so far succeeded in the arrest of dozens of fugitives, while others, mainly fighting frontiers leaders in the northern city of Tripoli, have turned themselves in.

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