Turkiye’s intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens of people.

Axar.az reports that citing Reuters,Turkiye’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) found out that Muhammed Dib Korali, who was suspected of planning the attack and providing the bombs, was inside Syria. The MIT captured him in a cross-border operation into Syria and handed him over to Hatay police.

It should be noted that twin car bombs ripped through the border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province on May 11, 2013, killing 53 people.

Yusuf Nazik, a Turkish national who was sentenced to life in prison for planning the 2013 bomb attack, was also seized inside Syria by the MIT in 2018.