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    FIVE BROTHERS HELD IN FOUR BEIRUT-AREA SLAYINGS

    United Press International UPI
    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/11/15/Five-brothers-held-in-four-Beirut-area-slayings/UPI-33821321376087/
    Nov 15 2011

    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Five brothers have been arrested in
    Beirut in the shooting deaths of four men in suburbs of the Lebanese
    capital, a source told The Daily Star.

    The brothers were arrested during a raid at their house in Beirut at
    4 a.m. Tuesday by members of the Internal Security Forces, the source
    told the newspaper.

    All four victims had been shot in the head with a 7.85mm pistol,
    the source said.

    The five men who were arrested were identified as Lebanese-Armenians
    George, Aziz, Massis, Maurice and Michel Tanelian.

    Their arrests came a month after police began surveillance after
    the Oct. 14 killings of Albert Ramez Nashar, 52, and Shaker Said
    Abdel-Nour, 48. Nashar's body was dumped under a bridge connecting
    Antelius to Naccache, and Abdel-Nour's body was found next to a bridge
    in Sin al-Fil, the Star said.

    The two other victims' bodies were found Saturday.

    The body of Lebanese Army Cpl. Ziad Hani Deeb, 30, was found on a road
    near the Beirut River, and the body of Hagob Yakoubian, a 50-year-old
    Lebanese-Armenian, was discovered behind a church in the Sadd-Boushrieh
    area in north Beirut.

    Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told a local radio station the five
    brothers were being interrogated.

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