Car Rigged with 120 Kgs of Explosives Seized in Arsal's Ain al-Shaab

The army seized Thursday a booby-trapped car containing around 120 kilograms of explosives in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

“The Lebanese army closed the Ain al-Shaab road in Arsal and imposed a security cordon around a dirt road on which a Mercedes car flipped over,” state-run National News Agency reported.

After suspecting that the vehicle could be booby-trapped, the army called in a bomb technician to examine the suspicious car.

“It turned out to be rigged with 120 kilograms of extremely explosive material, which were defused by the military expert,” NNA added.

On September 11, the army dismantled a booby-trapped car containing 100 kilograms of explosives in the same Arsal region.

The development comes after two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a packed cafe in Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding more than 37 others.

In recent months, the outskirts of Arsal have been witnessing near-daily clashes between the army and Syria-based jihadist groups, which had stormed the town in early August and engaged in deadly battles with the army. They also took hostage around 35 troops and policemen.

Y.R.