Police raid Lebanon's largest prison after attacks

Lebanese police stormed the country's largest prison Monday after Islamist prisoners torched mattresses, MENA reported citing a security source.

The security operation inside Roumieh prison east of Beirut came as Lebanese authorities searched for those behind a double suicide attack in the northern city of Tripoli Saturday, the source said.

Media reports said the prison crackdown came after intelligence showed that some of the inmates were connected to the Tripoli bombings in which eight people were killed.