Explosive Device Defused in Tyre's Maarakeh Town

An explosive device was found on Thursday evening in the town of Maarakeh in the southern Tyre District.

"The device was found in Shdaghrouss neighborhood in Maarakeh,” the state-run National News Agency said.

But an army statement said the bomb was found in Maarakeh's outskirts.

"At 4:30 p.m., an army patrol found an explosive device composed of 500 grams of TNT in the outskirts of the southern town of Maarakeh. A military expert arrived on the scene and defused it as a probe was launched under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities to arrest the perpetrators," it said.

Earlier, NNA said the bomb was composed of "two dynamite sticks, an electric device and explosive material."

The discovery comes hours after four rockets were fired earlier on Thursday from Tyre towards northern Israel.

The NNA revealed that the army found wooden launch pads from which the rockets were fired between Hawsh and al-Rashidiyeh in the South, denying reports of retaliatory Israeli shelling against southern Lebanon.

And on Saturday, a car filled with 250 kilograms of explosives was discovered near the municipality building in Naameh.

The car carried a fake license plate and contained five boxes of TNT, an unidentified explosive substance, fuses and a device for remote detonation.