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Fatal Beirut blast targets Hezbollah stronghold
Source: Associated Press
Fatal Beirut blast targets Hezbollah stronghold
Associated Press in Beirut
theguardian.com, Tuesday 21 January 2014 13.04 GMT
A car bomb ripped through a Shia neighbourhood in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing four people, in the latest attack targeting supporters of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
It was the second bombing in the neighbourhood of Haret Hreik this month amid a series of attacks that have shaken Lebanon in a spillover of Syria's civil war into its smaller neighbour.
The violence has targeted both Lebanon's Sunnis and Shias and has further stoked sectarian tensions that are already running high as each Lebanese community lines up with its brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.
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A group known as al-Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for Hezbollah's military support of President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria.
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Associated Press in Beirut
theguardian.com, Tuesday 21 January 2014 13.04 GMT
A car bomb ripped through a Shia neighbourhood in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing four people, in the latest attack targeting supporters of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
It was the second bombing in the neighbourhood of Haret Hreik this month amid a series of attacks that have shaken Lebanon in a spillover of Syria's civil war into its smaller neighbour.
The violence has targeted both Lebanon's Sunnis and Shias and has further stoked sectarian tensions that are already running high as each Lebanese community lines up with its brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.
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A group known as al-Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for Hezbollah's military support of President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/fatal-beirut-blast-targets-hezbollah-stronghold