BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanon's prosecutor has charged 34 people in connection with deadly attacks in the northern city of Tripoli over the past several months, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
Twenty-six of those charged are already in custody, with arrest warrants having been issued for the others, the official said.
Nineteen are Lebanese and 13 are Palestinians, with one Syrian and one Saudi rounding out the total.
On October 12, authorities arrested members of a "terrorist network" suspected of involvement in deadly bomb attacks in Tripoli.
Four soldiers and three civilians were killed when an explosion ripped through a military bus in the port city on September 29.
A similar attack in mid-August killed 14 people, including nine soldiers and a child.
Last year, the army fought a 15-week battle with the Al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam militia in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared near Tripoli that left 400 people dead, including 168 soldiers.
Since May, Tripoli has also been rocked by deadly sectarian violence between Sunni supporters of the government and their Damascus-backed rivals from the Alawite community.
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