BEIRUT: Four men were arrested Wednesday in the Bekaa after phone records showed they had been in contact with the two men killed earlier in the week who were said to be key members of the cell behind the kidnapping of the seven Estonians.
A security source told The Daily Star Thursday that phone records linked the mobile numbers of the two killed men – identified as Kinan Yassin and Mounir Jalloul – to the four arrested in a police raid on a car repair garage in the West Bekaa village of Gaza.
The state-run National News Agency said the four were three Lebanese and a Syrian.
The security source said experts in the Internal Security Forces’ (ISF) Information Branch had been examining the phone records data for the past week.
The ISF will listen to the four suspects’ testimonies to determine whether they had links with the cell behind the kidnapping of the Estonians and look into the relationship they had with two men killed Tuesday in a police ambush in the Bekaa Valley, the source added.
Seven Estonian nationals were abducted by masked men on March 23 while traveling through the Bekaa Valley shortly after visiting Syria.
They were held in captivity for nearly four months and released unharmed on July 14.
A security source told The Daily Star Thursday that phone records linked the mobile numbers of the two killed men – identified as Kinan Yassin and Mounir Jalloul – to the four arrested in a police raid on a car repair garage in the West Bekaa village of Gaza.
The state-run National News Agency said the four were three Lebanese and a Syrian.
The security source said experts in the Internal Security Forces’ (ISF) Information Branch had been examining the phone records data for the past week.
The ISF will listen to the four suspects’ testimonies to determine whether they had links with the cell behind the kidnapping of the Estonians and look into the relationship they had with two men killed Tuesday in a police ambush in the Bekaa Valley, the source added.
Seven Estonian nationals were abducted by masked men on March 23 while traveling through the Bekaa Valley shortly after visiting Syria.
They were held in captivity for nearly four months and released unharmed on July 14.
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