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Beirut violence cases referred to military prosecution

The Lebanese army said on Monday the investigation into last week’s Beirut violence was finished and those detained were referred to the General Military Prosecution, the army said in a statement on its website.

Seven followers of Lebanon's Shiite Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its ally, the Amal Movement, were killed on Oct. 14 in the worst street violence in Beirut in over a decade.