Five Brothers Held In Four Beirut-Area Slayings

FIVE BROTHERS HELD IN FOUR BEIRUT-AREA SLAYINGS

United Press International UPI

Nov 15 2011

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 15 (UPI) — Five brothers have been arrested in
Beirut in the shooting deaths of four men in suburbs of the Lebanese
capital, a source told The Daily Star.

The brothers were arrested during a raid at their house in Beirut at
4 a.m. Tuesday by members of the Internal Security Forces, the source
told the newspaper.

All four victims had been shot in the head with a 7.85mm pistol,
the source said.

The five men who were arrested were identified as Lebanese-Armenians
George, Aziz, Massis, Maurice and Michel Tanelian.

Their arrests came a month after police began surveillance after
the Oct. 14 killings of Albert Ramez Nashar, 52, and Shaker Said
Abdel-Nour, 48. Nashar’s body was dumped under a bridge connecting
Antelius to Naccache, and Abdel-Nour’s body was found next to a bridge
in Sin al-Fil, the Star said.

The two other victims’ bodies were found Saturday.

The body of Lebanese Army Cpl. Ziad Hani Deeb, 30, was found on a road
near the Beirut River, and the body of Hagob Yakoubian, a 50-year-old
Lebanese-Armenian, was discovered behind a church in the Sadd-Boushrieh
area in north Beirut.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told a local radio station the five
brothers were being interrogated.