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Four killed in car bomb explosion in eastern Beirut
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-12 16:10
At least four people were killed and ten others wounded in a car bombing
explosion in eastern Beirut on Monday, police and witnesses said.
The explosion occurred in the Christian-dominated Mekalis area, setting
nearby cars ablaze and damaging part of some buildings, witnesses said.
Police have cordoned off the area as rescue teams arrived to take the wounded
to hospitals.
Local television stations said the explosion was caused by a car bomb, which
is frequently used in previous similar attacks in the country.
It is not immediately known who the car bomb was targeting.
Lebanon has been gripped in a spate of bombing attacks since former prime
minister Rafik Hariri, who fell foul of Syria, was killed in a massive car
bombing in central Beirut on February 14.
These attacks mainly targeted anti-Syrian officials or public figures.
Damascus has repeatedly denied any involvement in the Hariri killing, but an
interim UN report on the investigation into the assassination implicated Syrian
and Lebanese security officials in the incident.
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