Suspected Accomplice in Akkar Child Rape, Murder Case in Custody
Police arrested on Monday a man who is the suspected accomplice of the rapist and killer of a child in the northern Akkar province, reports said.
Local radio stations said that police in the town of Halba apprehended G.M. for selling drugs to Nour Ayyash who has been accused of raping and killing the five-year-old Syrian boy.
G.M. has sold narcotic pills to Ayyash, 17, before committing his crime, the stations said.
Mohammed al-Khawli's body was found in a dumpster in Halba on Sunday.
The Internal Security Forces said Ayyash admitted to raping al-Khawli and killing him with a knife inside a cafe owned by the victim's parents.
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