ISF agents deployed outside a detention center in Beirut on Aug. 7, 2022, after detainees escaped. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army on Sunday arrested one of the 19 fugitives who escaped Friday night from a prison in Jounieh, the main city in Lebanon's Kesrouan district.
The arrest took place at an army checkpoint in Chadra, Akkar, in North Lebanon, the army said in a tweet.
The arrest brings the number of convicts apprehended following the Friday prison break to 13 — the Internal Security Forces had announced on Saturday that they had arrested 12 — with six escapees still at large.
The authorities have not disclosed the circumstances surrounding the escape.
In early September, 10 prisoners escaped from the al-Hisba police station in Saida in South Lebanon.
In August, more than 30 detainees escaped from the Adlieh detention center in Beirut via a window after clandestinely bringing a tool into the prison, security and judicial sources reported.