Beirut car bomb kills at least 21

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Washington Post:

Loveday Morris and Suzan Haidamous

8/15/13

 

BEIRUT A powerful car bomb ripped through a busy shopping street in Hezbollahs stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and injuring hundreds in the deadliest attack to hit the Lebanese capital in more than eight years.

 

The explosion early Thursday evening tore the facades off apartment buildings and set afire parked cars in the Ruwais neighborhood, an area of staunch support for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement that has been the subject of reprisal attacks since sending its militants in recent weeks to back President Bashar al-Assads forces in Syria. A group that asserted responsibility for the attack threatened more and more to come.

 

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The Beirut explosion, which the Lebanese army said was caused by a car bomb, occurred just a few hundred yards from the site of a blast that injured more than 50 people just over a month ago.

 

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