Fugitive Blows Himself Up in N #Beqaa, Wounds 6 #Lebanese Soldiers

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Six Lebanese army soldiers were lightly wounded Friday in northern Bekaa when a dangerous fugitive blew himself up during a confrontation with a military force, media reports said.

"As a patrol from the military intelligence's Strike Force was raiding a house in the town of al-Nabi Othman, where two armed militants were holed up - one from the al-Breidi family and the other from the al-Hujeiri family who both hail from the town of Arsal - a clash erupted with the raiding force and the militants tried to flee in a pickup truck," the National News Agency said.

"After the noose was tightened on them, Breidi blew himself up, wounding several soldiers," the agency added.

Other media reports said Breidi detonated the explosives inside a military vehicle after he was arrested.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team