Lebanese army has arrested a man suspected of launching an attack against a convoy of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement last week

Lebanese army has arrested a man suspected of launching an attack against a convoy of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement last week, local media says.

“A Lebanese army intelligence unit raided on Monday night a house in Majdal Anjar in the (eastern) Bekaa valley and arrested a man,” said Lebanon’s official National News Agency on Tuesday.

The news agency said the man, a Syrian, is “suspected of having planted several days earlier the bomb, on the road leading to the Masnaa (border post), that targeted a Hezbollah vehicle.”

One person was killed in the July 16 bomb attack on a Hezbollah convoy in eastern Lebanon.

A security source said the man who lost his life was travelling on board the vehicle which was gutted by a roadside bomb near the Lebanese-Syrian border. The source did not disclose whether the victim was a member of Hezbollah resistance movement.

On July 15, at least two people were wounded after a roadside bomb ripped through a car near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

According to Lebanese security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the bomb hit the vehicle on a road linking Lebanon’s capital Beirut to the Syrian capital Damascus near the Al Masnaa crossing point.

In January, two people were injured in a bomb explosion in the capital’s suburb of Hay al-Selloum. The bomb was planted underneath a car belonging to a Hezbollah member.

In December 2012, a car bomb attack in Beirut claimed the life of the intelligence chief of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan.