Beirut, March 23: A UN team investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on Tuesday began filming the site of the 2005 Beirut murder in 3-D, a military official said.
“The investigation team will be using high-tech equipment to film the area where the bombing occurred,” the official said without elaborating.
A UN tribunal based in The Hague was set up by a Security Council resolution in 2007 to try suspects in the murder of Hariri, killed in a massive bomb blast on the Beirut seafront in February 2005.
Tribunal spokeswoman Radhia Achouri also declined to give details on the filming on Tuesday.
“We do not give any details about any programme our team is carrying out,” she said. “There have been many visits and many specific projects, and investigators might carry out a project any day, any week.”
Members of the UN team wearing identity cards around their necks were filming and photographing the assassination site outside the once-popular Saint Georges Hotel.
The murder was widely blamed on Syria although Damascus has repeatedly denied any involvement.
Before the tribunal was formed, a UN commission of inquiry said it had found evidence to implicate Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, but there are currently no suspects in custody.
—Agencies