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STORY: The people of the Lebanese southern town of Majdal Selem accompanied the relatives of 17-year-old Malak Zahwi and Iman Hijazi on Friday as they said farewell to both of them after they were killed in a bomb that hit a southern suburb of Beirut.

A car bomb killed at least five people in Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold on Thursday, destroying several cars and tearing facades off buildings, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Shi'ite and Sunni targets in Lebanon.

Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said five people were killed and 66 wounded in the blast. A security source said the blast was caused by a car bomb.

And as relatives were devastated during the funeral, some people from the towns around attended and expressed their sadness as well.

The explosion occurred less than a week after former finance minister Mohamad Chatah, a vocal critic of the Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group and its ally Syrian Pres
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