Internal Security Drug Control Force Ambushed in Baalbeck
Unknown assailants opened fire on Monday at policemen from the Drug Control Office of the Internal Security Forces as it was preparing to destroy cannabis fields in al-Olaiq village in the eastern city of Baalbeck.
The National News Agency reported that the “force and the tractors that accompanied it came under an armed ambush after unknown assailants opened fire at it.”
The assailants also launched rocket grenades in the air.
NNA said that the vehicle of a journalist accompanying the patrol was damaged after it was hit by 3 gunshots. Another civilian car was also damaged.
Director of the Drug Control bureau Colonel Adel Mashmoushi confirmed that the “cannabis destruction operation will continue” and assailants “will be brought to justice.”
Voice of Lebanon radio station said that the destruction of the fields continued after calm returned to the area.
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