BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army has detained a suspect in the assassination of Bader Eid, brother of Arab Democratic Party founder Ali Eid, security sources said.
The unidentified suspect was arrested by Military Intelligence near the scene of the crime hours after Eid was shot dead in his car in the northern district of Akkar late-Monday.
He died hours after gunmen opened fire on his vehicle on the highway linking the Akkar towns of Haysa and Kouweikhat.
Charges have yet to be leveled against the individual.
The sources could not say what role, if any, the suspect may have played in the assassination.
He was apprehended as a suspected based on the fact that he was in close proximity of the crime scene when the shooting occurred, the sources said.
The attack was claimed by a group calling itself the “Kouweikhat group.”
In a statement released after the attack, the group called on Ali Eid to leave Akkar by Monday 10 p.m. Eid is currently residing in a border village in Akkar known as Khat al-Petrol.
It said the request was because members of the Eid family and residents of the predominantly Alawite Akkar neighborhood of Haysa “put up pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad...and assaulted the land.”
The group warned that if the Eid did not leave,he would be met with “fire and metal.”
Advertisement
No comments:
Post a Comment