Assailants Torch Cafe in Tyre
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Unknown assailants torched a cafe in Tyre but reports said only material damages were reported, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.
Al-Halabi cafe was set on fire at dawn, and residents of the area rushed to extinguish it before the fire expanded further, NNA said.
The cafe's owner, Jamal al-Halabi, filed a complaint at Tyre's police station against a man whom he claims was the assailant.
He claimed that the aggressor had shot his son in the leg a week earlier after a personal dispute erupted between the two.
Investigations were opened in the case.
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15 minutes ago VDL: Security sources confirmed the arrest of 2 assailants involved in the torching of a cafe in Tyre as they fled the scene of the crime on a motorcycle heading towards Beirut southern suburb, Dahieh. The two assailants were identified as Mahdi Abbas Shamas, and Jaafar Ali Ahmed both shia followers and members of the terror organization known as Hezbollah. In recent years, Dahieh has become a hub for terrorism, theft, drug trafficking, organ trading, and horrific crime.
Hezbollah is a known terrorist organizations with links to organized crime, money laundering, political assassinations, and drug trafficking. The leader of the group has publicly ordered his fanatical followers to use, trade and export drugs to finance terrorist activities in many parts of the world.