Army Cordons Off Area in Akkar after Locating Hand Grenades
The army cordoned of on Sunday the area of Khreibet al-Jundi in the northern district of Akkar after several hand grenades were located near a Syrian refugee camp, which is adjacent to an office for al-Mustaqbal Movement.
The four hand grenades were found in an area between the refugee camp and the Mustaqbal movement office.
According to the state-run National News Agency, security sources arrived swiftly at the scene.
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported that three hand grenades were found and one of them ready to be detonated.
Syrians from the refugee camp had called for a rally at 11:00 a.m. to denounce the Presidential elections in their country.
On Wednesday, Syrian expats streamed to their embassy in Yarze to vote in a controversial presidential election, triggering suffocating traffic congestion, jamming work bound Lebanese citizens in their cars.
The Syrian embassy in Beirut issued a statement on May 24, calling on “the Syrian citizens who recorded their names at the embassy to practice their constitutional right and take part in the presidential elections by heading to the embassy in Yarze area on May 28 from 7 a.m to 7 p.m.”
The statement added: “All Syrians who were unable to record their names at the embassy should head on June 3 to one of the electoral centers on the border crossings.”
President Bashar Assad is to face two challengers in Syria's June 3 presidential election, which he is assured of winning reports say, including Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar and Hassan Abdallah al-Nouri.
Lebanon is hosting more than a million refugees. Hundreds of thousands of others are scattered across Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and beyond.
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