Lebanon's security forces foil suicide bomber in busy Beirut district
Sources say the would-be bomber had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and was acting on orders from its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa
Lebanese soldiers arrested a would-be suicide bomber inside a crowded cafe in one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the capital Beirut on Saturday night, security sources told AFP.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a man wearing an explosive bomb belt had been detained by authorities after entering a coffee shop in the upscale Hamra neighbourhood in west Beirut.
The man told interrogators that he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and had been acting on orders from Raqqa, the group's stronghold in Syria, sources told Al Jazeera.
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Thankfully, they stopped him.
