Fugitives Turn Themselves in as ISF Seizes Arms Cache from Depot in Tripoli
An Internal Security Forces unit raided on Wednesday a depot in Abi Samra neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli and seized a large arms cache, the National News Agency reported.
ISF commander in Tripoli General Bassam al-Ayoubi announced that the depot contained rocket-propelled grenades, Energa-type rockets, various types of grenades.
The depot, located in an apartment on al-Hawouth Street in Abi Samra, also contained two Kalashnikov rifles and their ammunition, added an ISF statement later on Wednesday.
The apartment is owned by A.N., also known as Marwan, who was arrested by the ISF Intelligence Bureau on May 12, it said.
Later on Wednesday, the army announced that a number of suspects, who were wanted for their involvement in the recent fighting the city, turned themselves in to the Intelligence Directorate.
They were identified as Mohammed Jamal al-Nahili, Zakaria Mohammed Jomaa, and Ahmed Taha al-Hajjar.
And in another statement, the military institution announced that Bilal Nasser al-Akkari, Ibrahim Ahmed al-Obeid, Hassan Qassem Seif, Omar Abdul Karim Daher, Khaled Ali Shaaban, and Sayed Mohsen al-Doueihy have turned themselves in
The statement said that all these fugitives have arrest warrants against them for their involvement in the Tripoli clashes.
On Monday, the ISF Intelligence Bureau raided a warehouse belonging to A.N., in the al-Soweiqa al-Mahatra neighborhood and confiscated a number of weapons.
Last month, the army deployed heavily in Tripoli and started implementing a major security plan devised by the government to end violence in the city.
Tripoli witnessed around 20 rounds of deadly gunbattles in recent years between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
The security plan has resulted in the arrest of dozens of gunmen and fugitives in Tripoli and the Bekaa but a lot of wanted men have managed to escape, while others remain at large.
Last week, a number of leaders of armed fighters in Tripoli turned themselves over to the military intelligence.
H.K.
M.T.
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