Lebanese police seeking Syrian man involved in murder

Police are searching for a 30-year-old Syrian man allegedly involved in the murder of a Lebanese man two weeks ago in Jal el-Dib, north of Beirut, police said Saturday. On Feb. 16, the lifeless body of George Kandargi, 51, was found in his Jal el-Dib home. He had been strangled to death. A piece of cloth had been stuffed into his mouth and wound around his face and neck with the same electrical wire used to bind together his hands and feet. Nine days later, Jdeideh’s judicial police arrested two Syrians, aged between 23 and 28, who confessed to killing Kandargi in coordination with another man, who they claimed escaped to Syria.  Police confiscated those of Kandargi's possessions found in their apartment and handed them over to his brother.