Conflict Incident Report

Two alleged gunmen accused of wounding a police patrol unit in a brief shooting in the Bekaa’s Hammoudieh have been arrested, a statement from the Internal Security Forces reported Friday.

A patrol of Baalback’s judicial police unit was passing by Hammoudieh in the Bekaa Thursday, when three cars with tinted windows and without license plates blocked the police vehicle’s path, the statement said.

After cutting the road, a group of armed men got out from the cars and started firing at the patrol unit, hitting one of its officers in the shoulder. The vehicle also sustained 30 bullet marks, before the gunned men took off.

The wounded personnel was transported to a hospital for treatment.

Following the incident, around 200 judicial police units took part in house raids in the area, which lead to the arrest of the two Lebanese suspects identified as F.E., born in 2000, and E.E., born in 1987, according to the ISF.

Drugs and counterfeit money bills were also allegedly confiscated.

A search is ongoing to apprehend the remaining suspects involved, while F.E. and E.E. are being questioned.