Lebanese forces defuse 20-kilogram bomb near northern border

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Sunday 15 Mar 2015 - 12:03 Makkah mean time-24-5-1436 The explosive device found in the Akkar village of Abboudieh, north Lebanon. (Image from The Daily star ) Beirut, (IINA) - Lebanese Army technicians on Saturday discovered and defused an improvised explosive device at the northern border with Syria, the military announced in a statement. Lebanese Daily Star newspaper noted that the statement issued by the Lebanese military, stated that the explosive device was found on Saturday by an Army patrol on the side of a dirt road in the Akkar town of Abboudieh. The explosives expert examined the 20-kilogram bomb and defused it, it added. A security source told the Daily Star that the explosive was 70 meters away from an Army checkpoint and was on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria. SM/IINA