Beirut – Lebanese police on Tuesday arrested eight employees of the country’s 2_kommentar private mobile telephone company in connection with the U.N.-led investigation into the February 14 killing of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The arrests are linked to mobile telephone numbers sold prior to Hariri’s killing and disconnected the day after, the sources said.
The eight, six men and two women, are employees of the MTC mobile company.(dpa)