Turkey has handed over a suspect in last week’s bomb attack which targeted a leading Hamas member in the Lebanese city of Sidon to Lebanon a Lebanese newspaper announced Thursday.
“The intelligence branch of Lebanon’s Internal Security Agency has received Ahmed Bitiyya a suspect in last week’s assassination attempt on Hamas member Mohamed Hamdan” al-Diyar Lebanese newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper Turkey decided to hand over Bitiyya to the Lebanese Interior Security after he was arrested in Istanbul upon request by the Lebanese authorities.
Lebanese security forces have subjected Bitiyya to investigation to identify a group of four individuals suspected of involvement in the January 14 bomb attack which targeted Hamdan in Sidon.
Based on the investigation the four suspects had fled outside Lebanon.
