Sources told LBCI that 15 of the Syrians who were arrested during the Lebanese army’s operation in Arsal refugee camps were released, while 85 of them were referred to the General Security for illegally crossing the borders into Lebanon.
On Tuesday, the Lebanese Armed Forces command said that four Syrian men it had arrested after a raid on a refugee camp on Friday had died while in detention from chronic illnesses.
It said in a statement posted on its website that the four were already unwell but that after a routine medical inspection upon their arrest, their condition worsened and they died.
They were taken to hospital without having been interrogated and the deterioration in their condition was due to the weather, the statement said, without elaborating. The weather in Lebanon has been hot.
They were among about 350 people detained during raids targeting Islamist militants on Friday in refugee camps around Arsal in north Lebanon during which four suicide bombers attacked the army, the statement said.
The raids were part of a security sweep by the army in an area that has been a flashpoint for violent spillover from the Syria crisis and is located near a jihadist enclave.