Lebanon: Four Casualties so Far in Zahle Prison Fire
October 6, 2023
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On Thursday afternoon (October 5), the official Syrian TV announced the drone attack on the graduation ceremony of the graduates of the military college in Homs province.
Hassan al-Ghabbash, the Minister of Health of Syria, announced that according to the preliminary statistics, the number of martyrs of this terrorist crime is 89 people, including six children and six women, and the number of wounded has reached about 277 people.
According to Iran press news agency, Yemen's Ansarullah Political Bureau, while condemning the attack by terrorist groups on the military college in the Syrian city of Homs, emphasized that America and the Zionist regime are taking advantage of this crime.
The Political Bureau of Ansarullah Movement announced in its statement that this criminal act exposed the brutality of the Takfiri groups supported by the US and the Zionist regime.
The statement said America and the Zionist regime are the biggest parties that benefit from this crime, and this crime is a cruel war against the Syrian nation, leadership and army.
In this statement, the Ansarullah movement emphasized that the United States and the Zionist regime are behind all the evil conspiracies against Syria, and the reason for this is Syria's positions in support of Palestine and its position in the axis of resistance and opposition to the normalization of relations with this regime.
Ansarullah also declared its full solidarity with the Syrian nation to fight against terrorism and conspiracies of America and the Zionist regime.
Four victims were reported so far as a result of the Zahle prison fire, NNA Correspondent reported on Friday.
Civil defense personnel use hydraulic shearing machines to rescue the injured.
Heavy army and security forces’ deployment have been registered around the prison building. Civil Defense and Red Cross members worked to transfer the injured to Al-Muallaqa Governmental Hospital in Zahle.
Caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Judge Bassam Mawlawi, continued to follow up this afternoon on the Zahle Prison situation, after a number of prisoners set fire inside the prison premises which spread to the building’s upper floors.
To this end, Mawlawi contacted Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, asking for support in protecting the prison’s surroundings. He also contacted Civil Defense Director General, Brigadier General Raymond Khattar, calling for reinforcement to the civil defense units that are working to extinguish the fire and evacuate prisoners from inside the rooms.
Mawlawi also received a call from the Internal Security Director General, Major General Imad Othman, who kept him updated on the latest developments inside the prison.
Meanwhile, the Interior Minister commissioned the Bekaa Governor, Judge Kamal Abu Jaoude, to follow up on field procedures and on-ground developments, especially in terms of evacuating prisoners and treating the injured.
