Booby Trap Parcel Defused at the General Security Department

A package containing about 150g of explosives was found Friday at the General Security Department headquarters in Beirut.

General Security members at the headquarters in Adlieh detected the package among others.

A military expert inspected the package that contained about 150g of TNT and C4 explosives and a timer, the National News Agency reported.

Security reports explained that the package did not detonate due to technical failure.

Voice of Lebanon radio said initial investigation revealed that the sender of the booby trapped package is called Mahdi al-Hajj Hassan. MTV also said that the man lives in Beirut's southern suburbs.