Information revealed that the Iraqi member of parliament, Ahmed al-Alwani, whose body was found in a residential apartment in the Tarek al-Jadida area of Beirut, "was strangled to death in the apartment using the curtain rope of the house." A judicial source confirmed to Asharq al-Awast that the security services "revealed the identities of three of those involved in the crime, two Syrians and a Lebanese man, who is currently detained pending investigation." They were the ones who brought Alwani from the airport to the hotel when he arrived in Beirut. It is likely that the two Syrians "left the territory of Lebanon after committing the crime."