BEIRUT - The Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri said that additional witnesses will be called in for testimony next Monday.
Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday in court in The Hague, Netherlands, one of which refused to reveal his identity.
The first witness was retired Officer in the Beirut Fire Department Khaled al-Tbeili who was present at the scene of the explosion on February 14, 2005.
Tbeili said that the 70-80 firefighters who rushed to the scene took around two hours to extinguish the fire.
Meanwhile, another person testified anonymously and was referred to as “Witness 427.”
The said witness is the brother of one of the victims whom he refrained from naming and who was on his/her way to work when the explosion took place.
The court was adjourned until Wednesday at 10:30 in the morning.
On Thursday, January 16, the STL started its blockbuster trial of four Hezbollah members indicted for Hariri’s assassination in a February 2005 car bombing that killed 21 others.
In June 2011 the UN-backed court charged four Hezbollah members – Mustafa Badreddine, 52, Salim Ayyash, 49, Hussein Anaissi, 39, and Assad Sabra, 36 –for Hariri’s murder.
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