Several Injured in Separate Tripoli Attacks, Miqati Calls for 'Strictly' Prosecuting the Perpetrators

Several people were wounded on Saturday evening in separate security-related incidents in the northern city of Tripoli, media reports said.

In the first incident, the state-run National News Agency said unknown assailants fired gunshots at two citizens in the Souq al-Arid area in Tripoli, wounding them in the legs.

The injured men were transferred to a northern hospital for treatment.

“Security forces deployed in the region and launched a probe in the incident,” the NNA said.

Radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) identified the injured men as Naim Raghda and Ali Anan, noting that they were admitted to Al-Salam Hospital.

The same source said the army brought reinforcement and is prosecuting the attackers in the Old Serail region.

Meanwhile, Rifaat Mahfoud was also wounded in the leg in a gun shooting incident nearby City Complex in Tripoli, and was transferred to a northern hospital for treatment.

VDL remarked that the army cordoned off the City Complex and seized the security cameras' tapes to try to identify the shooter.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and as a result of these incidents, telephoned caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, urging the adoption of strict measures to prosecute the attackers, arrest them and penalize them.

In a separate incident also in the northern city, the NNA said a group of men riding a Kia car hurled three bombs in front of Abu Youness Maqsoud coffee shop in al-Jadeed street.

Two of the three bombs detonated and lightly injured four people that were transferred to a hospital in the region.

The wounded men according to the NNA are Ziad Merheb, Wissam Dilati, Ahmed Kilani and Fawaz Nabulsi.