Lebanon suicide bombing narrowly misses security chief
- 10 years ago
A suicide bomber has killed one person and wounded more than 30 others at a security checkpoint in Lebanon.
The explosion occurred in the country’s Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, an area where Lebanese Sunni Muslim militants opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been targeting his key Lebanese ally, the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement.
The blast narrowly missed a top security official, a Shi’ite, who said he had been told that Sunni Islamist militants wanted to kill him.
The dead man was a police officer at the checkpoint. The wounded were mainly police, as well as civilians in the area.
Syria’s conflict has inflamed violent sectarian strife in Lebanon.
The explosion occurred in the country’s Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, an area where Lebanese Sunni Muslim militants opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been targeting his key Lebanese ally, the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement.
The blast narrowly missed a top security official, a Shi’ite, who said he had been told that Sunni Islamist militants wanted to kill him.
The dead man was a police officer at the checkpoint. The wounded were mainly police, as well as civilians in the area.
Syria’s conflict has inflamed violent sectarian strife in Lebanon.