Suicide car bombing near army checkpoint in Beirut
- 10 years ago
A suicide bomber blew up a car near an army checkpoint in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday evening.
The blast killed a security officer and injured around 20 people watching Brazil play Cameroon in the World Cup in a nearby cafe.
It happened in the mainly Shi’ite Muslim district of southern Beirut where supporters of a Hezbollah-linkeg group, Amal, live.
Lebanon has suffered a wave of sectarian violence linked to the war in Syria.
Security forces were already on high alert after a suicide attack on Friday near the Syrian border which killed one person and injured scores more but narrowly missed the chief of Lebanon’s General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim.
The blast killed a security officer and injured around 20 people watching Brazil play Cameroon in the World Cup in a nearby cafe.
It happened in the mainly Shi’ite Muslim district of southern Beirut where supporters of a Hezbollah-linkeg group, Amal, live.
Lebanon has suffered a wave of sectarian violence linked to the war in Syria.
Security forces were already on high alert after a suicide attack on Friday near the Syrian border which killed one person and injured scores more but narrowly missed the chief of Lebanon’s General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim.