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FOUR KILLED IN BEIRUT BLAST NEAR IRAN CULTURE CENTER
12:48 * 19.02.14
A large explosion near an Iranian cultural center in the southern
suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at least four
people and wounded 19, Reuters reported, citing security sources.
The explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb and a
motorcycle laden with explosives.
The area is controlled by the Shi'ite political and militant movement
Hezbollah. Iran's embassy in the same area was targeted by a bomb
attack in November, one a series of car bombs in southern Beirut
since July.
The Kuwaiti embassy is also located in the same area.
Lebanese television footage showed fire trucks and Lebanese soldiers
standing in the streets. A wounded man was carried away on a stretcher
and a young girl was being evacuated by two men. Glass covered the
road and nearby buildings were damaged.
Radical Sunni Islamists have pledged to attack Hezbollah on Lebanese
soil for its intervention in Syria to help Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, a member of the Alawite offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, in his
war against majority Sunni rebels.
Armenian News - Tert.am
12:48 * 19.02.14
A large explosion near an Iranian cultural center in the southern
suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at least four
people and wounded 19, Reuters reported, citing security sources.
The explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb and a
motorcycle laden with explosives.
The area is controlled by the Shi'ite political and militant movement
Hezbollah. Iran's embassy in the same area was targeted by a bomb
attack in November, one a series of car bombs in southern Beirut
since July.
The Kuwaiti embassy is also located in the same area.
Lebanese television footage showed fire trucks and Lebanese soldiers
standing in the streets. A wounded man was carried away on a stretcher
and a young girl was being evacuated by two men. Glass covered the
road and nearby buildings were damaged.
Radical Sunni Islamists have pledged to attack Hezbollah on Lebanese
soil for its intervention in Syria to help Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, a member of the Alawite offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, in his
war against majority Sunni rebels.
Armenian News - Tert.am