The judge leading Lebanon’s probe into last year’s massive Beirut port explosion on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a former Cabinet minister, The Associated Press reported.
The judge, Tarek Bitar, charged Ali Hassan Khalil, Lebanon’s former finance minister and current member of parliament, and three other former senior government officials with intentional killing and negligence that led to the deaths of scores of people in the explosion. It wasn’t immediately clear if Khalil would be arrested after the warrant.
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