A number of Syrians were arrested on Wednesday during Army Intelligence raids in the Zgharta district in the North, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the forces arrested 11 Syrians during raids on their encampments in Ehden in Zgharta.

An Internal Security Forces investigation uncovered on Wednesday the circumstances surrounding the death of a Syrian national in al-Saadiyat region, as a body of a female was found hanging in the northern Zgharta district.

“Howaida Hussein Salloum was found hanging with a cord on the balcony of her house in the Zgharta town of Meryata,” the state-run National News Agency said.

Three Internal Security Forces members were injured on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on them in the northern district of Zgharta and in the city of Tripoli as police clamped down on construction violators.

The state-run National News Agency said that two policemen were injured after coming under fire while removing illegal buildings in the area of al-Shalfe in Zgharta.

Residents of the northern town of Alma on Thursday opened fire on armed forces that were trying to demolish illegal construction, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that while two bulldozers backed by the Internal Security Forces Panthers Unit and army troops were trying to remove the violations caused by 35 houses constructed illegally, several residents opened fire on them.

A wanted suspect was killed in a shootout with police during a chase in the district of Zgharta in the North, the Internal Security Forces announced in a statement on Friday.

It said that as an ISF patrol was monitoring an unlicensed constitutional site, when the suspect Abdul Hamid Hassoun happened to pass by the area.

Disabled Man Left Homeless after Collapse of his Zgharta House

A disabled man and his sister have been left homeless after their house in the village of Bou Seet in Zgharta collapsed on Sunday, reported the National News Agency on Monday.