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Man Accused of Attacking Karami Convoy Handed Over to ISF after Being Released from Hospital
[An Nahar] Mohammed Youssef, a man under arrest for allegedly being involved in the shooting at Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami's convoy, was handed over to the security forces on Saturday after he had been shortly released by gunnies from the Islamic Hospital in the northern city of Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , LBCI television reported. Earlier on Saturday, an gang stormed the northern hospital and released Youssef by force, LBCI said. The National News Agency elaborated: "The masked men came in two separate cars and threatened people present at the hospital with guns". "They striped the security forces guarding Youssef's room of their weapons and rushed out with the locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! man," it detailed. OTV added: "The attackers headed towards (the northern region of) Bab al-Tabbaneh". Minister Karami told radio Voice of Leb (93.3) that the gunnies "invaded the hospital, frightened everyone present there and attacked the coppers". He remarked: "They fired gunshots into the air after releasing Youssef". A car part of Karami's convoy was engulfed in flames in January following a grenade attack in Azmi street in Tripoli. Karami had stated that the convoy was passing in the area when several cars came under gunfire He told LBCI that "five of the bodyguards were maimed." Posted by: Fred 2013-02-24 |
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