He said a telephone tip helped lead the police to the suspect, who told detectives he had thrown the gun away in a nearby park.

Investigators began observing the youths after receiving an anonymous telephone tip at noon on Wednesday.

After a telephone tip on May 10, her body was found wrapped in a blanket about three blocks from her home.

The police, brought to the spot by a mysterious telephone tip, had carried away two more who were wounded.

However, the police are following up what apparently was an anonymous telephone tip and want to question her about Boring.

"The police have received an anonymous telephone tip to that effect."

A police spokesman said the anonymous telephone tip had been received at a police station in Beirut's southern suburbs.

An investigation began in January after an anonymous telephone tip to the State Department.

The police said the officers were suspended without pay after an internal investigation that was started as the result of a telephone tip.

The official explanation for the shootout is that the operation was compromised at the last minute by the telephone tip.