The Lebanese army announced that they arrested a group of Syrian nationals in the southern town of Nabatiyeh and seized almost 0.5kg of explosives, according to NOW Lebanon.

“An army patrol arrested Syrian nationals Khodr al-Fanoush, Sheikh Mohammad Saleh al-Fattah, Ahmad Mohammad al-Fanoush, Hussein Farhan al-Fattah, and Wael Hussein al-Hassan and seized explosives they possessed that weighed around 450 grams,” a statement issued by the army said.

The army added that the suspects are being questioned, but did not say whether they had been planning a terror attack.