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Army explains 2 suicidal operations in Awwali, Majdelyoun


NNA - In light of the two suicidal operations that targeted the Lebanese Army yesterday evening in Majdelyoun and Awwali region and led to the martyrdom of army member Samer Rizk, the Lebanese Army Guidance Directorate issued a communiqué on Monday detailing the incidents.



It explained that yesterday at 21:00 three individuals were suspected by the Lebanese Army in Awwali region, and when a military guard asked them about their evidential papers, one of them lifted up a hand grenade warning the army. Yet, the guard was fast enough to fatally shoot him but the grenade exploded to wound two army members of the checkpoint.



The corpse of the dead was later on found tied to a bombing belt twisted around him.



In connection with the aforementioned operation, the army set a temporal checkpoint at Majdelyoun Bkosta intersection only to stop a grayish Envoy car on board of which were three individuals. One of them left fiercefully the car and headed towards the military sergeant Samer Rizk to execute his suicidal operation and kill Rizk and wound another military member. At once, the army fatally shot the two other individuals who were accompanying the suicide bomber.



And when the Envoy was inspected, it showed a big quantity of weapons and bombs.


=======A.M.



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