General Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi revealed that Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr has started investigations in the Zahle prison incident that took place on Saturday, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

He told the daily that the officers that were detained in the unrest were held on charges of negligence.

Cabinet is scheduled to resume its meetings on Wednesday by tackling pending diplomatic appointments, reported the daily An Nahar on Monday, while noting that the cabinet will not tackle the dispute over the new wages scale.

It added that the appointments will likely be approved at the session after an agreement by the March 8 camp was reached over the matter.

A number of leading March 14 camp officials met at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea's Maarab residence on Saturday in order to address the local and regional situation, revealed the daily An Nahar on Monday.

It said that the leaders tackled in depth the latest developments, especially in light of the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan, and reached an agreement on the main measures that need to be taken during the next phase in Lebanon.

A home-made weapons manufacturer in north Lebanon was killed in a blast in his workshop on Sunday while trying to make a machinegun for Syrian rebels, a Lebanese security official told Agence France Presse.

Marwan al-Qassab was working on a DShK heavy machinegun to be smuggled into Syria to support the insurgents when a blast rocked his workshop, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Residents of the Akkar plain town of Tal Andeh on Sunday blocked the international highway linking northern Lebanon to Syria in protest at the Syrian authorities' arrest of town resident Samer Ahmed al-Nuaim, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

The protesters erected a tent in the middle of the street, stressing that they will not remove it before the release of Nuaim.

Abducted Lebanese journalist Fidaa Itani has reassured that he was in good health in a YouTube video uploaded on Sunday.

In the video uploaded by his abductors, a Syrian rebel group calling itself the Aazaz Northern Storm Brigade, Itani said he was in good health, clarifying that he is “under house arrest.”

A number of arrests were made on Sunday over the Zahle prison incident on Saturday that left one inmate dead, reported the National News Agency.

It said that three officers, three soldiers, and five inmates from the Mazloum family were arrested over the dispute.

A Syrian national wanted for several counts of thefts was arrested in the Bekaa region on Sunday, reported the National News Agency.

Salem Kamal al-Ali confessed to committing 30 robberies.

Efforts are underway in order to bridge the differences between former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat in light of the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

It revealed that President Michel Suleiman contacted the two officials in order to ease the dispute between them.

Youth and student groups from the March 14 coalition on Sunday marked ten days since the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan.

Demonstrators in downtown Beirut formed a human chain that stretched from the Martyrs Square to the Grand Serail, carrying Lebanese flags and banners condemning the assassination and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government.