Three Injured in Zahriyeh Shooting and Man Carrying Grenades Arrested in Airouniyeh

Three people were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting in al-Zahriyeh area in the northern city of Tripoli.

"An unknown assailant fired gunshots at Samir Rustom in al-Zahriyeh in the afternoon, wounding him in the leg,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

"A soldier and Ahmed al-Hosni, a minor, were also injured in the incident,” the NNA added.

The shooter fled to an unknown destination while the injured men were transferred to the region's hospitals for treatment, according to the same source.

"A heavy army deployment was noticed in the area between (the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of) Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh,” radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) said.

Al-Jadeed television said army and Internal Security Forces mobile checkpoints were erected in al-Zahriyeh.

In a separate incident, NNA said the army arrested Syrian national Qays Abdul Hamid Jideh at the al-Airouniyeh checkpoint which links Zgharta's Mejdlaya to the al-Beddawi area near Tripoli.

Four hand grenades were seized in Jideh's possession, NNA added, as LBCI television described him as a “Salafist.”

“Jideh was disguised in a ISF member costume,” VDL remarked.

The al-Airouniyeh checkpoint is on the road between Mejdlaya and the Zgharta district and also links Tripoli's al-Qobbeh area to the northern Dinniyeh district.