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Lebanon foils three suicide attacks by 'terrorist network', says interior minister

FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi walks at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) foiled plans by a "terrorist network" to carry out three suicide attacks in the country, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a news conference on Wednesday.

Mawlawi said the network was affiliated with the Islamic State group and that the plans for attacks, near the capital Beirut, involved gunfire and fire from rocket-propelled grenades in addition to suicide vests.

(Reporting by Mahmoud Mourad and Timour Azhari; Writing by Timour Azhari Editing by Alex Richardson)

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