Report: AMAL Members Open Fire at Vehicle that Did Not Halt at Dahieh Checkpoint
Security forces from the AMAL party opened fire on Tuesday at a vehicle that did not halt at a checkpoint in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh, reported MTV.
It said that they fired at Range Rover, with tinted windows, after it failed to stop at an AMAL checkpoint in the Farhat neighborhood in Dahieh.
Party members in the area soon went on alert and began searching a number of nearby cars.
Police dogs were used in the efforts to make sure that no booby-trapped vehicles were in the vicinity, said MTV.
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) had denied however that a shooting had taken place on Tuesday morning.
Hizbullah had stepped up security measures in Dahieh and cities in southern Lebanon in light of a car bombing in the area on Thursday that claimed the lives of 30 people and wounded 336 others.
A number of booby-trapped cars have been found since then, including one in the Naameh area in southern Lebanon.
Eight people, of Lebanese and Palestinian nationalities, were found involved in the scheme to detonate the car in another area.
Security agencies seized on Saturday afternoon an Audi car filled with 250 kilograms of explosives near the municipality building in Naameh.
The Naameh plot was to be the first of a series of attacks, well-informed sources told As Safir newspaper on Monday.
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