BEIRUT: The Lebanese military said Tuesday it had rescued over 20 people off the country’s northern coast after a boat trying to smuggle them out broke down.
A military statement said the naval forces, along with the civil defense agency and the Red Cross, rescued “22 people during an attempt to smuggle them illegally aboard a boat after it broke down off the coast of Tripoli,” the largest city in the north.
“Work is ongoing to rescue the remaining passengers,” it said, without specifying how many people had been aboard.
The official…
