Judge al-Zein issues arrest warrant against 2 Syrians over the Masnaa road attack

Military Examining Magistrate Imad al-Zein issued on Tuesday arrest warrants against two Syrian nationals accused of preparing explosives, and targeting cars traveling on the Masnaa road.

The state-run National News Agency reported that Judge al-Zein completed interrogations with the detainees accused of belonging to an armed terrorist group preparing explosives.

The two Syrians were identified as Firas Zaitoun and Ons Majzoub.

The number of detainees in this file reached five, while three others were charged in absentia.

On Tuesday the 16th of July, the national news agency reported that a bomb exploded at the junction of the Al-Azhar Mosque on the Majdel Anjar-Masnaa international road targeting a 4x4 runner with plate number identified as 259431/B.

In this context, sources told LBCI that the aforementioned registration number may belong to another vehicle, namely that of a Peugeot whose owner remains unknown.

The NNA added that wounded persons were transported to the Chtoura hospital and were identified as Hussein Ali Deir, Fady Abdel Karim, and another person from the Al-Hujairy family.

Following the explosion, Lebanese Armed Forces cordoned off the site of the blast and mentioned that the bomb was remotely detonated.

Hezbollah convoys have been the target of explosions while en route to Syria with a similar incident taking place on both the 10th and 28th of June; however, no casualties were reported.