| Oh. Gee. Golly. Lebanon's becoming unstable. I guess the Syrians should stay to maintain order. |
 At least two people have been killed in an explosion in a shopping centre near the Lebanese port city of Jounieh north of Beirut. The fatalities included security guards working the night shift. Lebanese police sources told Aljazeera a bomb weighing some 70kg placed inside a bag near a night club was behind the blast. Police said the blast occurred shortly after midnight in the area of Kaslik near Jounieh, 15km from Beirut. They had initially cited three fatalities. Lebanese television said the blast early on Wednesday also left eight people injured.
Aljazeera has also learned that the fatalities did not include Lebanese citizens. There were unconfirmed reports that one of those killed was from India and the other from Pakistan.
| Cheez, Abdul and Mukkarjee had to go all the way to Lebanon to get whacked? |
Two Sri Lankans and a Lebanese were among the injured. Television footage showed extensive damage to the Alta Vista commercial centre with shards of glass and debris blown clear across the street. One fatality had been covered with a blanket as emergency crews searched for possible other casualties. A car bomb had rocked a northern Christian suburb of Beirut last Saturday, wounding nine people. |