ISF agents deployed outside a detention center in Beirut on Aug. 7, 2022, after detainees escaped. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces on Monday arrested four of 19 prisoners who escaped from a Lebanese prison Friday, bringing the arrest toll to 17, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The ISF added that the search for the two remaining inmates, of Syrian and Lebanese origin, is still ongoing, according to the NNA. Twelve of the 19 prisoners who escaped from the prison in Jounieh in Kesrouan, Lebanon, were caught on Saturday and another was caught on Sunday.
The authorities have not disclosed the circumstances surrounding the escape.
Earlier this month, 10 prisoners escaped from the New Saida al-Hisbah police station. In August, more than 30 detainees escaped from the Adlieh detention center in Beirut via a window after sneaking a tool into the prison, security and judicial sources reported.