9 Fugitives, Including Leaders of Armed Fighters in Tripoli, Turn themselves over to Authorities
Leaders of armed fighters in the northern city of Tripoli turned themselves over to the military intelligence, the military institution announced in a communique.
"Ziad Allouki, Saad al-Masri, Khaled Qawwas and Omar Mheish, who have several arrest warrants against them, have turned themselves in," the Army Command said in a communique.
LBCI reported earlier in the day that the four fugitives have handed themselves over to the authorities.
It did not provide further details.
And in the evening, MTV reported that four other fugitives have turned themselves in to the army intelligence.
The four men were identified as Ali Sharkasi, Hassan Srour, Abdullah al-Helweh and Ahmed al-Abboud.
On Monday, Allouki's brother, Yehia, was arrested in Tripoli.
The Army Intelligence arrested him on multiple counts of “shooting, hurling hand grenades and taking part in acts that undermine security.”
Ziad Allouki was the so-called leader of the Souk al-Qameh fighting frontier in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.
Up until turning himself in, he went into hiding following the army and security forces' implementation of a security plan in the city.
In June 2013, the army raided an arms depot belonging to Ziad Allouki, which contained a quantity of explosives, local-made mortars, rifles, ammunition and other military equipment.
The security plan has resulted in the arrest of dozens of gunmen and fugitives in Tripoli and the eastern Bekaa region, but several wanted men have managed to escape, while others remain at large.
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