Lebanese army says it seized arms depot in Beirut's southern suburbs

Lebanese army says it seized arms depot in Beirut's southern suburbs

The Lebanese army said on Friday it had raided an arms depot in Beirut's southern suburbs and arrested one person.

The army carried out "a special security operation after close monitoring of the transportation and trade of weapons", targeting an "arms depot in the Msharrafieh area of the southern suburbs", it said in a statement.

It said troops seized a "large number of war arms and munitions", and that the person arrested is under investigation.

The statement did not say who the weapons belonged to.

In June, Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement that included the disarmament of Hezbollah, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from territory it occupies in the south and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the area.