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OneCrazyDiamond

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:21 PM Jun 2014

Suicide car bomber wounds 19 in south Beirut

Source: Reuters/Yahoo

A suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe.
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The bombing came just three days after a failed attempt to kill one of the top security officials in Lebanon, which has suffered a wave of sectarian violence linked to the civil war in neighbouring Syria.

Monday's explosion, shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), killed the bomber and wounded 19 people, Lebanon's civil defence force said. An emergency worker at the nearby Sahel hospital said it treated 11 lightly wounded people.

Reuters television footage from the scene showed the blackened wreckage of a car, surrounded by damaged vehicles.

Windows in nearby buildings were shattered by the blast, which occurred in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut inhabited by supporters of the Shi’ite group Amal, an ally of the militant movement Hezbollah.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-shakes-south-beirut-cause-unknown-residents-211012559.html



It is a scary world we live in.

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Suicide car bomber wounds 19 in south Beirut (Original Post) OneCrazyDiamond Jun 2014 OP
It never stops. 840high Jun 2014 #1
Once again: Syria. Knew a couple who came to the USA in the 70s. They blamed Syria for all of it. freshwest Jun 2014 #2
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