BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army announced Wednesday that it had arrested a group of 12 people in a raid on a Beirut area apartment, confiscating firearms and drugs.
In a statement, the Army said is also arrested man in Beirut's southern suburbs suspected of shooting at troops in east Lebanon last month.
The Army said it raided a building in the eastern Beirut suburb of Dikwaneh Tuesday night, arresting six Syrian nationals, four Bengalis, one Iraqi and one Lebanese.
Soldiers discovered a number of “personal guns, ammunition, drugs and stolen items.”
Separately, the Army said it arrested a man at a checkpoint in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs Lebanese national Haidar al-Masri, who had been on the run for allegedly shooting at troops in east Lebanon last month.
The statement said that Haidar participated in a round of shooting that wounded an Army soldier and a civilian in the Baalbek area village of Majdaloun.
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