Hezbollah criticises judge for alleging group linked to Private Seán Rooney’s death

Private Seán Rooney. Picture: Defence Forces

Hezbollah has criticised a Lebanese judge for alleging members of the militant group were behind last year’s killing of Irish UN peacekeeper Private Seán Rooney, saying the powerful faction “had absolutely no relation to the incident”.

The comments by Hezbollah’s chief spokesman Mohammed Afif came a day after Lebanon’s military tribunal charged five men with the killing of Pte Rooney in the south of Lebanon, a stronghold of the Iran-backed group.