11 Arrested near al-Beddawi Camp on Suspicion of Involvement in 'Recent' Blasts
The army on Thursday arrested 11 people near the al-Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli on suspicion of their involvement in “recent bomb attacks.”
"As part of the mission of preserving security and stability, an army force arrested this afternoon 11 Syrians near the al-Beddawi camp in the North on charges of moving inside Lebanon without legal identification papers,” an army statement said.
“A number of devices used in armoring vehicles and a car with no registration papers were seized in their possession,” the statement added.
The statement also said that army troops arrested two Syrians in the Bekaa region for attempting to enter Lebanon illegally.
“The detainees and the seized material were handed over to the relevant authorities and an investigation got underway under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities,” said the statement.
Earlier on Thursday, state-run National News Agency said army troops backed by armored vehicles raided buildings at the al-Shraydi residential complex, which is adjacent to the al-Beddawi camp.
It said 13 people were arrested "in coordination with the Palestinian factions while the Palestinian Security Committee had handed over three Syrian suspects together with two cars – a gray Mercedes with a Lebanese license plate and a black Kia with a Syria-Tartus license plate."
The agency added that Lebanese security forces arrested Wednesday three Syrian nationals in Jabal al-Beddawi “on suspicion of forming cells belonging to a network involved in recent bomb attacks in Lebanon.”
Earlier on Thursday, NNA said the army searched several buildings in the complex and confiscated weapons. The detainees and the confiscated arms were taken to the al-Qobbeh barracks, it noted.
The target was a building rented by a Norwegian group working to assist Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to Agence France Presse.
A security source told AFP that Palestinian factions in the camp helped the army "by blocking all the routes" leading into al-Baddawi "to prevent the suspects from fleeing."
A large number of Syrians have been arrested in Lebanon in recent months, but Thursday's was the first raid of an alleged cell.
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