The Joint Palestinian Security Force at the al-Beddawi refugee camp has handed over a man suspected of being involved in the Kaftoun crime to the Intelligence Branch of the Internal Security Forces, the National News Agency said on Sunday.
The suspect, Palestinian national Ehab Shahine, had turned himself in at dawn to the Palestinian force following a clash, media reports said.
Fingerprints lifted from the culprits’ car have revealed that they belong to two individuals arrested in the past over terror-related offenses. Security forces said they belonged to Shahine and Youssef Kh., at the time a third suspect was detected.
Shahine confessed before investigators that he was driving the car but that he didn’t shoot, security sources told A-Manar correspondent.
Al-Manar revealed the name of the third suspect, Khaled Tlawi, whose fingerprints were found in the car. Tlawi is a Syrian national who was previously arrested for terrorism charges.
The incident in Kaftoun left three municipal police guards dead — Alaa Fares, who is the son of the town’s mayor, George Sarkis and Fadi Sarkis.
According to reports, the assailants opened fire when the municipal guards asked them why they were roaming the area in car carrying no registration plates.
The gunmen fled on foot after the incident as the town’s mayor said “weapons, hand grenades and electric wires” were found in the deserted car.
Source: Al-Manar
