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Twelve of the 19 fugitives who escaped Friday evening from a prison in Jounieh, the main city of Kesrouan, were arrested on Saturday morning, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced.

In a tweet, the police first indicated that 11 detainees had been arrested, before adding that a twelfth was put under lock and key. She said that research is continuing to arrest the detainees who remain on the run.

At the beginning of September, ten prisoners had escaped from the al-Hisba police station in Saida, capital of southern Lebanon. In August, more than 30 inmates escaped from a prison through a window near the Palace of Justice in Beirut. Only a few of them were eventually found by the police.