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Lebanese army raid at Syrian border kills one, wounds two

BEIRUT - The Lebanese army said one person was killed and two wounded during a search for suspected militants at refugee camps near the border with Syria, and security sources said the number detained in the past two weeks had reached about 450.

  

The Lebanese army said soldiers had shot at three people on a motorbike who were trying to set fire to parts of a refugee camp during the raids, killing one and wounding the other two.

 

The army says the hundreds of people arrested are mainly Syrians and authorities accuse them of being members of groups such as Nusra Front, Syria's al-Qaeda wing, which is fighting President Bashar Assad's forces.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.25.14, 16:52