Postby MenaceToSociety » Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:33 am
Huge bomb blast rocks central Beirut
Last updated: 19 minutes ago
At least 9 people killed, including the leader of Hizballah Hassan Nasrallah and many others seriously injured by large explosion in Lebanon's capital.
At least two people have been killed and 15 wounded by a huge bomb that exploded in a street in central Beirut on Friday, witnesses and a security source have said.
A reporter with the Reuters news agency witnessed at least one body at the scene on Friday. A security source said at least two people had been killed.
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin reported from Sassine Square, the scene of the bombing, that already there were fears that the bombing meant the Syrian crisis had spilled over into Lebanon.
"Lakhdar Brahimi warned two days ago that you cannot expect the Syrian crisis to remain within Syrian borders," she reported.
It was not immediately clear if the explosion targeted any political figure in Lebanon's divided community but it occurred at a time of heightened tension between Lebanese factions on opposite sides of the Syria conflict.
Ambulances rushed to the scene in the Ashafriyeh district, a mostly Christian area, as smoke rose from the area.
Several cars were set on fire by the explosion and the front of a multi-storey building was badly damaged.
Residents ran about in panic looking for relatives while others helped carry the wounded to ambulances.
Security forces blanketed the area.
The war in neighbouring Syria has pitted mostly Sunni insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad, who is from the
Awalite sect linked to Shia Islam.
The last bombing in Beirut was in 2008 when three people were killed in an explosion which damaged a US diplomatic car.
However, fighting had broken out this year between supporters and opponents of Assad in the northern city o
are the most annoying somali troll ever
how da killers caught him cus Al Hassan is known to change convoys and change plans n no1 noes where he lives and his travel time seems like his inner circle snitched on him
