BEIRUT: Police launched a “wide-scale search operation” early Monday morning in Lebanon’s sensitive Roumieh prison following a weekend riot by Islamist inmates, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said.

He said a Strike Force unit, part of the Internal Security Forces’ Special Operations Command, carried out the search operation” at Roumieh’s Block D between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.

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