Lebanese Army detonates suspicious object east of Zahle in Bekaa

The Lebanese Army detonated a suspicious object found on a dirt road linking the towns of Kfarzabad and Ain Kfarzabad, east of Zahle district in the Bekaa, and a video of the detonation was circulated. The previous day, the Army seized a quantity of explosive materials at the Syrian border that were prepared for smuggling from Syria into Lebanon, and the smugglers fled into Syrian territory, according to an Army statement.