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Beirut – Reuters
The Internal Security Forces in Lebanon said in a statement that five prisoners were killed on Saturday when a car in which they were traveling collided with a tree after more than 60 prisoners escaped from a prison on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital. , Beirut.
The statement did not mention how 69 prisoners escaped, but a security source said this facility is intended for the detention of those awaiting trial and that it belongs to Baabda prison near Beirut.
The Lebanese presidency stated on Twitter that the interior minister in the interim government informed President Michel Aoun about the prisoner’s escape, noting that the president had ordered to intensify the search and investigation operations of the incident.
The Internal Security Forces said in their statement that “15 of them were detained, while 4 surrendered.”
He added that “a traffic accident occurred and a car hit a tree. Led (the incident) to the death of five and injuring one, he is being treated in a hospital.
Earlier, the Lebanese National Information Agency reported that inmates escaped from the prison at dawn today after breaking through the cell doors...
The security forces cordoned off the Baabda Palace of Justice and its surroundings, indicating that the Information Division of the Internal Security Forces detained some of them again. The prosecutor from Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, went to her office in Baabda. Initiate an investigation into the massive escape of prisoners.
