Eight Jaafar Clan Members Indicted in Btedei Crime
A judge indicted on Friday eight Jaafar clan members in the murder of a couple in the eastern Baalbek district in November last year.
First Examining Magistrate in the Bekaa Valley Judge Imad al-Zein issued in absentia arrest warrants against the suspects for the murder of Sobhi and Nadimeh Fakhri in the town of Btedei.
Al-Zein referred the suspects to the Bekaa Criminal Court for trial.
The couple were killed by fugitives from the Jaafar clan who were fleeing army troops.
The gunmen entered the family's house with the intent of taking their vehicle but the tenants showed resistance, which prompted the armed men to shoot the couple and their son, who survived the attack.
Last month, one of the suspects was killed in a clash with the army.
Ahmed Mohammed Salim Jaafar was injured after the military ambushed him in an area between al-Yammouneh and Dar al-Wasaa.
But he later succumbed to his injuries.
G.K.
M.T.
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