Eight people were killed in eastern Lebanon on Monday in an army raid on the home of a suspected drug trafficking baron, the armed forces said. “An army unit raided the house of Ali Zayd Ismail, wanted on several counts of drug trafficking in the area of Al-Hamudiya-Brital,” in the eastern Bekaa Valley, the army said. But an army source told AFP he was killed in the raid and identified by a relative. In April, the army seized 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds) of Captagon from an abandoned house they said Ismail was using in Brital. And in December, the army seized 800 kilogrammes of cannabis from Ismail’s home.

Source: Punch July 23, 2018 14:48 UTC