Hizbullah Prevents Official Security Apparatuses from Investigating Rouwais Blast
The blast that took place in the Rouwais area in Beirut’s southern suburbs was targeting former detainee in Israeli jail, Samir al-Qontar, revealed the daily An Nahar on Sunday from official security information.
It noted that the blast, which Hizbullah’s media department said was caused by the explosion of a gas canister, erupted in the neighborhood where the former prisoner lives.
The media department said that only material damage was incurred in the blast.
The pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat meanwhile reported on Sunday that Hizbullah is preventing the official Lebanese security apparatuses from entering its stronghold of Dahieh.
The apparatuses were prohibited from entering the area where they were seeking to conduct the official investigation to determine the causes of the incident, a security source told the daily.
A prominent judicial source told the daily that a military tribunal official managed to reach the scene of the accident, refusing to add information on the matter.
Asked if the blast was caused by a gas canister, the judicial source replied: “No comment.”
Asharq al-Awsat reported that witnesses, who managed to reach the scene before Hizbullah drove them away, stated that the accident “was caused by a blast larger than the explosion of a gas canister.”
They revealed that four cars were nearly completely destroyed by the explosion with broken glass strewn all over the street.
Furthermore, they revealed that civil defense teams that hurried to the area were prevented from accessing the scene.
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