The Lebanese navy is holding a Sierra Leone-registered ship and says it has confiscated a large consignment of arms and ammunition it was carrying, BBC News reported.
The 11 crew members were detained after three shipping containers full of heavy and light weapons were found on the Lutfallah II.
Some of the arms were labelled as Libyan, according to Reuters.
The ship’s owner told the agency it was due to unload in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.
Milos Strugar, a spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) which assists Lebanon in preventing illegal arms entering the country, has reportedly that it was bound for a Lebanese port.
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