Syrian authorities said on Wednesday they had killed a man and arrested four others who were attempting to smuggle hundreds of landmines to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Axar.az reports, citing Al Arabiya, in a statement, the interior ministry said it launched a raid in Al-Jebbe, near the capital Damascus, during which “four people were arrested and a fifth neutralized after a clash.”

Khaled Abbas Taktouk Internal security director for the Yabrud region, which is close to the Lebanese border, was quoted as saying that “1,250 mines armed with detonators” were seized.

According to the statement, they were “intended to be smuggled to Hezbollah” in Lebanon.