At least four people were killed and 65 injured in a suicide car bomb Thursday, January 2nd in the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to a final trial balance of the Lebanese Ministry of Health. This is the fourth attack on the Shiite Hezbollah stronghold since July.
" The hand of terrorism does not distinguish between Lebanese, it implements a dastardly plot to lead to dissension ," responds the outgoing Prime Minister Najib Miqati .
The attack came less than a week after a suicide car bomb already in Beirut which killed an adviser to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri , Mohammad Chatah , hostile to Hezbollah and Bashar al- Assad in neighboring Syria.==>
According to the National News Agency NNA , " a 4x4 exploded in the busy street of Al- Aarid in Haret Hreik " in the southern suburbs of Beirut. "At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in the attack according to a preliminary assessment ," according to The Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil , revising down an earlier toll of five dead .. Television channels showed the facades of buildings and destroyed at least two cars burnt .
Near the Hezbollah Political Council
A crowd panicked and in shock would gather around the site of the attack , a densely populated area , while emergency services tried to clear a path .
The attack happened around 4:15 p.m. ( 3:15 p.m. French time) at Al- Aarid , where there are several shops. According to the Hezbollah television Al -Manar , the attack occurred " 200 meters from the Political Council of Hezbollah," while spreading it was targeted by the attack. " The attack targeted a residential area indiscriminately ," said the chain , calling people to get away for fear of a second attack, as was the case of the double suicide attack outside the embassy of Iran last November, but also to allow aid to help the wounded.
Before the 2006 war that pitted Hezbollah and Israel , his sworn enemy, the area of Haret Hreik was " security perimeter " of the Shiite movement , that is to say the area where the main institutions of the party . The attack Thursday was also produced near the ancient studios Al-Manar .
Syria divides the country
Several attacks have struck Beirut and northern Lebanon since July, aimed mostly Hezbollah strongholds , whose men fight alongside the rebel army of the Syrian regime .
Last week, Saad Hariri blamed Hezbollah for the attack against Mohammad Chatah which claimed the lives of seven other people. But Hezbollah has denied any involvement . The assassination of former adviser to Prime Minister has exacerbated the already deep divisions in Lebanon between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime , but also tensions between Shiites led by Hezbollah and Sunnis represented by Saad Hariri.
" The hand of terrorism does not distinguish between Lebanese, it implements a dastardly plot to lead to dissension ," responds the outgoing Prime Minister Najib Miqati .The attack came less than a week after a suicide car bomb already in Beirut which killed an adviser to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri , Mohammad Chatah , hostile to Hezbollah and Bashar al- Assad in neighboring Syria.==>
According to the National News Agency NNA , " a 4x4 exploded in the busy street of Al- Aarid in Haret Hreik " in the southern suburbs of Beirut. "At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in the attack according to a preliminary assessment ," according to The Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil , revising down an earlier toll of five dead .. Television channels showed the facades of buildings and destroyed at least two cars burnt .
Near the Hezbollah Political Council
A crowd panicked and in shock would gather around the site of the attack , a densely populated area , while emergency services tried to clear a path .
The attack happened around 4:15 p.m. ( 3:15 p.m. French time) at Al- Aarid , where there are several shops. According to the Hezbollah television Al -Manar , the attack occurred " 200 meters from the Political Council of Hezbollah," while spreading it was targeted by the attack. " The attack targeted a residential area indiscriminately ," said the chain , calling people to get away for fear of a second attack, as was the case of the double suicide attack outside the embassy of Iran last November, but also to allow aid to help the wounded.
Before the 2006 war that pitted Hezbollah and Israel , his sworn enemy, the area of Haret Hreik was " security perimeter " of the Shiite movement , that is to say the area where the main institutions of the party . The attack Thursday was also produced near the ancient studios Al-Manar .
Syria divides the country
Several attacks have struck Beirut and northern Lebanon since July, aimed mostly Hezbollah strongholds , whose men fight alongside the rebel army of the Syrian regime .
Last week, Saad Hariri blamed Hezbollah for the attack against Mohammad Chatah which claimed the lives of seven other people. But Hezbollah has denied any involvement . The assassination of former adviser to Prime Minister has exacerbated the already deep divisions in Lebanon between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime , but also tensions between Shiites led by Hezbollah and Sunnis represented by Saad Hariri.
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