Thursday, November 12, 2015

At least 37 killed in twin Beirut explosions

Thirty-seven people were killed and 181 were wounded on Thursday following two explosions that rocked Beirut’s southern suburb, a stronghold for Lebanese group Hezbollah, medics and Red Cross officials said.

The attacks occurred 200 meters away from the closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospital, which according to Lebanon’s health minister could not cope with the influx of wounded.

The blasts occurred almost simultaneously and struck the community’s center and a nearby bakery in the commercial and residential area of Borj al Barajneh, security sources told Reuters news agency.

Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said a third suicide bomber had been killed by one of the explosions.

The blasts, which were also close to a closely guarded Hezbollah-run hospital, were the first attacks for more than a year in a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, which has sent fighters to Syria to fight alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the country’s civil war.

Medics rushed to treat the wounded after the explosions, which damaged shopfronts and left the street stained with blood and littered with broken glass.

The army set up checkpoints at all entrances to the southern suburbs and Hezbollah’s own security force was on high alert.
alarabiya.net
[With  Reuters]

12/11/15

4 comments:

  1. The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings rocked a busy shopping street Thursday in a Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, killing 41 people and wounding more than 200 in the worst such attack in years...

    Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, speaking from the scene on a street of shops where vendors also sell from stalls, said many of the injured were in serious condition.

    The army said the body of a "third terrorist" was found at the scene of one of the blasts after he apparently failed to blow himself up.......http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/92259-151112-eight-dead-in-suicide-bombings-in-beirut-hezbollah-bastion

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  2. Bei zwei Explosionen in einem Vorort von Beirut sind mindestens 37 Menschen getötet und fast 200 verletzt worden...

    Der Ort wird vorwiegend von Schiiten bewohnt und gilt als Hochburg der radikalislamischen Hisbollah.

    Laut des Libanesischen Roten Kreuzes sind bei Explosionen in Borj al-Barajneh mindestens 37 Menschen getötet und mindestens 181 Menschen verletzt worden. Die Angriffe ereigneten sich Sicherheitskreisen zufolge fast gleichzeitig. Ziel der Anschläge waren demnach ein Gemeindezentrum und eine Bäckerei. In der Nähe steht auch ein schwer bewachtes Krankenhaus, das von der Hisbollah betrieben wird..........http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/anschlag-beirut-101.html

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  3. Hezbollah vowed to continue its fight against "terrorists" after Thursday's double attack in an area in its Beirut southern suburb which killed at least 37 people...

    "What happened here is a crime...this battle against terrorists will continue and it is a long war between us," Hussein Khalil, an assistant to the group's leader, said from the site of the explosions.
    REUTERS

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  4. Jour de deuil national après l'attentat contre un fief du Hezbollah à Beyrouth...

    Deux attentats-suicides revendiqués par l'EI ont frappé jeudi le fief du mouvement chiite libanais Hezbollah à Beyrouth. L'attaque, qui a fait au moins 43 morts, est l'une des plus meurtrières depuis la fin de la guerre civile au Liban en 1990.

    Le Liban observe, vendredi 13 novembre, une journée de deuil national au lendemain du double attentat ayant fait au moins 43 morts dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth. Une attaque contre le fief du Hezbollah chiite que le groupe jihadiste sunnite État islamique (EI) a revendiquée.

    Les deux organisations se font la guerre en Syrie voisine, déchirée par un conflit de plus en plus complexe qui a fait depuis 2011 plus de 250 000 morts. L'attaque de jeudi, qui a aussi fait près de 200 blessés, est la plus sanglante contre un bastion du Hezbollah depuis son implication début 2013 dans le conflit en Syrie au côté du régime de Bachar al-Assad, et l'une des plus meurtrières au Liban depuis la fin de la guerre civile (1975-1990)................http://www.france24.com/fr/20151113-liban-deuil-national-attentat-beyrouth-ei-daech-hezbollah-syrie-chiite-sunnite
    13/11/15

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