BEIRUT - Lebanon charged 28 people on Tuesday for involvement in a double suicide bomb attack in the northern city of Tripoli this month which killed at least nine people, a judicial source said.
Four of those charged by the main military court are in custody after being arrested last week on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization that was plotting to carry out further attacks in Lebanon, the source said.
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The bombing by suspected Sunni Islamist militants took place at a cafe in an Alawite neighborhood of Tripoli on Jan. 10.
It appeared aimed at stirring sectarian strife in a country that has suffered regular spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The attack, condemned across Lebanon's political spectrum, prompted widespread raids by security forces, including on a prison which had effectively been taken over by its Islamist inmates.
