Four Syrian men arrested after Lebanese army raids on refugee camps last week have died, the military command said on Tuesday (July 4th).
Lebanese soldiers stormed two refugee camps on Friday near the border town of Arsal, but were met with a string of suicide attacks and grenades, AFP reported.
They carried out a wave of arrests in the wake of the explosions, which killed one girl and wounded seven soldiers.
"During the usual medical examinations conducted by the army's medical unit, a number of them were found to be suffering from chronic health problems that were activated as a result of weather conditions," the army said Tuesday.
According to the army, the men were immediately transferred to hospitals, but their health conditions worsened and they died.
Meanwhile, a 7-year-old girl died and seven people were injured when a fire broke out in a Bekaa Valley refugee camp on Tuesday in the second such blaze this week, rescue workers said.
The fire began at a camp near Bar Elias after midnight, firefighters there said.
A gas explosion inside adjacent tents is the suspected cause of the fire, according to An-nahar.
Lebanon’s civil defence service said 22 of the camp's 185 tents were destroyed.
On Sunday, a massive blaze near the village of Qab Elias killed one person and wounded six, according to the Red Cross, with locals saying a child was killed.
That fire destroyed all but three of the camp's 193 tents, a resident said.
