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Lebanon's Hezbollah says not linked to accused in peacekeeper killing

FILE PHOTO: Members of UNIFIL peacekeepers attend the repatriation ceremony for Irish soldier Sean Rooney who was killed on a U.N. peacekeeping patrol, at Beirut International Airport, in Beirut, Lebanon December 18, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday denied that five men accused by a military tribunal of killing an Irish U.N. peacekeeper in 2022 were linked to the armed Shi'ite group.

A court document filed on Thursday had identified some of the five as members of Hezbollah and allied movement Amal, according to a senior Lebanese judicial source.

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