Lebanese Army arrests man involved in killing 4 soldiers

SANAA, Sept. 26 (YPA) – The Lebanese army announced  that its forces have arrested  a suspect accused of killing of four soldiers earlier this month.

The army said, in a statement, that intelligence and army units in the Hilan village pf Zgharta district in northern Lebanon on Friday arrested a man belonging to the group responsible for killing the four soldiers,

According to the statement, the man called Ahmed Samir al-Shami.

The four soldiers were killed while trying to arrest Khaled Al-Talawi, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of two security officers and the mayor’s son in the northern Lebanese town of Kafton on August 21st.

Al-Talawi fired and threw a grenade as soldiers raided his home in the Baddawi area near the coastal city of Tripoli on September 13th, killing three soldiers at the site and a fourth died of his wounds.

Al-Talawi was later shot dead, and the army said at the time that he was heading an “armed cell”.

E.M