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The Onset of Civil War in Lebanon?

13 February, 2007

Explosion In Bikfaya

Daily Star Online edition staff
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Television footage showed several destroyed vehicles, including a minibus with its roof torn off, on a mountain road. Pools of blood lay near one vehicle.Two simultaneous explosions went off near the Lebanese mountain town of Bikfaya on Tuesday that resulted with the death of nine people, a security source said.

An army spokesman said one explosion had ripped through a minibus carrying passengers near the town, causing casualties. He said it appeared from first reports that the second blast had hit another minibus in the same area.

Interior Minister Hassan al-Sabaa said early information was that the bombs had exploded inside the minibuses.

The head of the Lebanese Red Cross said at least three dead and six wounded had been taken to a nearby hospital. "There could be more casualties," said Georges Kettani .

It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions, which occurred a day before the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The Lebanese Red Cross is now having a sweep of the whole area, building a field tent to directly tend to the wounded and carry the rest to the nearest hospital mainly hospital Sirhal and Bhaniss. Bikfaya is the home town of former President Amin Gemayel, whose son Pierre was

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This is really alarming. It looks Lebanon is being pushed towards civil war once again.

munaeem | 13/02/2007, 17:33 [ Reply ]

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