RPGs, Medium Caliber Machineguns Fired at ISF as Captagon Depot Raided
An Internal Security Forces unit came under heavy gunfire Friday during a raid on a Captagon warehouse in the Baalbek neighborhood of al-Kayyal, the ISF said.
“After the Bekaa anti-drug bureau obtained information about the presence in Baalbek's al-Kayyal area of a depot containing machines, raw material and precursors for manufacturing Captagon pills, a force from the bureau raided the warehouse and came under heavy gunfire from light- and medium-caliber machineguns as well as rocket-propelled grenades, which prompted it to respond in kind,” an ISF statement said.
“The attackers eventually fled the scene as the depot was encircled with help from a Lebanese army force, Judicial Police patrols and units from the regional police department and the ISF Intelligence Branch,” the ISF added.
Around 400,000 Captagon pills were seized in the depot in addition to four truckloads of raw material, precursors, metallic heads and various types of spare parts that are used in the manufacturing of narcotic pills, the statement said.
A 51-year-old Lebanese and a 49-year-old Palestinian were arrested in the operation as a probe got underway under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities, the ISF added.
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