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| Death toll from Beirut car bombing climbs to 27 | ||
| 2013-08-18 | ||
| The death toll from a car bombing that ripped through a Beirut stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah has risen to at least 27, the health ministry said on Saturday. The toll is the highest in Lebanon since a massive car bomb attack on the Beirut seafront killed then prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others in February 2005. “At least 27 people died and 336 others were wounded in the car bomb attack that targeted the Rweiss neighbourhood on Thursday,” the office of Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said. An earlier toll on Friday said at least 22 people had been killed when a car packed with explosives blew up in the densely populated district in Beirut’s southern suburbs. But Khalil’s office said three people died of their injuries overnight Friday while two more bodies were found, raising the death toll. A previously unknown group, the Battalion of Aisha, said it carried out the attack because of Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syria war. “You, the pig Hassan Nasrallah, we send you our second powerful message because you haven’t understood yet,” a member of the group said referring to the head of Hezbollah.
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| Posted by:Steve White |