Military Intelligence Tasked with Investigating Daraya Blast

The army intelligence was tasked on Monday with carrying out the preliminary investigations in the Daraya blast, reported LBCI television.

It said that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr the military intelligence to conduct the investigations.

Abdul Latif al-Dakhakhni, an Egyptian and his brother Mohammed were killed and a Syrian identified as Mohammed Hasan Masaoud were gravely injured in the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Daraya on Sunday when the bomb they were preparing accidentally exploded.

The dead men are the sons of Daraya mosque Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Dakhakhni who is married to a Lebanese and has been living in the village for a long time.

A security source told As Safir newspaper Monday that Abdul Latif al-Dakhakhni is a follower of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir who has gone into hiding over the deadly clashes between his supporters and the Lebanese army in the southern city of Sidon.

The source said the Sheikh is in custody. Investigators are questioning him over maps locating the targets of the bomb attacks that they were plotting and al-Nusra Front flags found in his residence.