BEIRUT: Two prison guards were each sentenced to two weeks in
prison after falling asleep on duty and allowing a detainee to escape,
according to Thursday media reports.
According to Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, a Syrian detainee at the
General Security Detention Center escaped while the two guards took a 10-minute
nap while on duty.
The detainee is still at large, while the two guards were
referred to the Military Tribunal, which sentenced them to two weeks in prison
on charges of violating military instructions and allowing a detainee to escape
while they slept.
The tribunal also sentenced the Syrian fugitive to one month and
prison and fined him LL100,000.
Meanwhile, one man was arrested and another escaped after their
vehicle overturned in Bikfaya Wednesday night as they fled from police. The two
men, identified as Maurice Youssef Youssef and Iskandar Mohammad, were caught
while attempting to rob a mobile phone shop located between Bikfaya and
Ameriya.
When police arrived, Youssef and Mohammad fled, but their
vehicle, a Kia Cerato, flipped over. Youssef was severely injured and taken to
Serhal Hospital and police are in pursuit of Iskandar, who escaped on foot.
Separately, police arrested a man from the Zeaiter family in the
Baabda town of Mreijeh. The man was stopped while driving a Hyundai. He did not
have the required vehicle registration papers and police discovered several
arrest warrants in his name.
In the Bint Jbeil village of Shaqra, police arrested a man, who
was not identified, wanted on charges of car theft and fraud.
Also Thursday, two dead bodies were found but the causes of
death have yet to be determined. The body of Ahmad Hasan Hajj, a Palestinian in
his 50s, was found Thursday at dawn in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near
Sidon. Palestinian camp security forces initially examined the body, which was
found covered with a nylon sheet in a garbage pile in the camp’s vegetable
market, and proceeded to notify Lebanese police, who took the body to a local
hospital in Sidon. Hajj was most likely strangled to death, according to
sources familiar with the case.
In the Farhat
neighborhood of the Sabra refugee camp, south of Beirut, the burnt body of a
pregnant woman was found, security sources told The Daily Star. Residents
discovered the body near a dumpster. The woman has yet to be identified and
police have launched an investigation.
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