Report: Lebanon army stops weapons truck bound for Syria
Lebanese soldiers uncovered a cache of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades hidden inside a van driving towards Syria, the state-run Lebanese National News Agency reported Saturday.
The army seized the truck Friday on the Halba-Khraibeh road in the Akkar region, 140 kilometers north of Beirut.
Lebanese news agency reported the weapons were to be smuggled into Syrian-Lebanese border towns.
The van was thought to be owned by a Lebanese man from the area of Wadi Khaled, where at least 5,000 Syrians have sought refuge since the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad erupted in Syria in mid-March.
Syrian and Lebanese authorities have worked in concert to thwart smugglers transporting weapons from Lebanon into Syria.
Syrian troops this week were deployed along the northern border with Lebanon to stop Syrian refugees and army deserters from fleeing into Lebanon, and to keep an eye out for weapons smugglers.
In Syria, activists told DPA that 21 people were killed in protests and violence that gripped the country on Friday…