The Lebanese Army Thursday received the body of a policeman killed by the Nusra Front while being held captive on the country's northeastern border, a senior military source told The Daily Star.
“The Army received today the body of martyr Ali Bazzal,” the source said. He gave no other details.
The Nusra Front shot Bazzal dead in December. Bazzal is from the Bekaa Valley town of Bazzalieh.
The Nusra Front and ISIS (Daesh) hold 25 policemen and Lebanese soldiers in captivity since a brief incursion into the northeastern border town of Arsal last August. Negotiations to free the captives have stalled and their families are now holding an open-ended sit-in in Downtown Beirut to pressure the Lebanese government to hasten their release.
