BEIRUT: Police in north Lebanon have arrested a young man accused of killing a 14-year-old Syrian boy Monday.
A security source told The Daily Star that police arrested Ahmad Walid al-Basha, 25, late Monday, hours after finding the body of Ali Halloum in a grassy area on a riverbed in the town of Kwaikhat, in the district of Akkar.
The source said Basha, who is also Syrian, confessed to strangling Halloum with a wire.
Halloum’s body was found with strangle wounds around his neck and with a battered right eye.
A relative told The Daily Star the boy went missing near their home in Kwaikhat around 6:00 p.m. Sunday after walking to a nearby cell phone shop to recharge a line.
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