A military explosives expert defused at dawn Friday a bomb in the eastern city of Zahle, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said the bomb, which was connected to an electric wire, was found at 12:30 am in a box on the side of the road between Grand Hotel Kadri and Khoury hospital.
The army immediately threw a security dragnet pending the expert's arrival to the scene.
He later defused the bomb.
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