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Police Critically Injured while Chasing 7 Escaped Inmates in Lebanon


Sun 29 Aug 2021 | 05:16 AM
Taarek Refaat

A number of Lebanese security forces were injured on Saturday while chasing seven prisoners who escaped from a police station in the east of the country.

The official Lebanese National News Agency announced that 7 inmates, including a Syrian, a Lebanese and a Palestinian, had escaped from Dahr al-Baydar police station.

The agency indicated that a number of members of the security forces suffered "various injuries while chasing the escaped inmates in the woods near Dahr al-Baydar police station," adding that civil defense personnel are working to transfer them to hospitals for treatment.

The security forces arrested four prisoners out of 6 who had escaped from the police station, after they were chased in the nearby bushes, three Syrians and a Lebanese.