Lebanese army says it seized arms depot in Beirut suburbs

BEIRUT: The Lebanese army announced on Friday that it seized a large number of arms and ammunition from a depot in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, adding that it arrested one person.

The army conducted “a special security operation after close monitoring of the transportation and trade of weapons,” it said in a statement, adding that it raided an “arms depot in the Msharrafieh area of the southern suburbs.”

It said it seized a “large number of war arms and munitions” and arrested one person who is currently under investigation.

The statement made no mention of who the arms belonged to.