Assailant of wife detained in Tripoli as well as a girl abductor

The General Directorate of Internal Security announced in a statement yesterday the arrest of a 29-year old Lebanese man for bashing his 24-year old (Lebanese) wife’s head with a stone in Bab al Raml Cemetry of Tripoli in the North for allegedly family-related reasons. Under investigation, the ISF statement said the assailant confessed that after leaving his wife at the Cemetery, he rushed to his employer who called the Red Cross to transport his wife to the hospital where she is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit. On the other hand, and in a follow-up of the recent abduction of a Lebanese minor girl from in front of Amchit Public High School (c.f: http://bit.ly/2koAq7B), a Mount Lebanon Detachment patrol arrested a (Syrian) man, an accomplice in the kidnapping with his Syrian national, and handed him over to Torzaya police station. In a related development, the ISF Information Department handed over the van driver who carried the Syrian men and the abducted girl to the Police Unit in Byblos for interrogation, while the search continues for the main kidnapper and the girl. (Al Diyar, February 3, 2017)