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 "A journalist and anti-Syrian member of Lebanon's parliament was killed Monday morning when a massive car bomb exploded in an eastern Beirut suburb, opposition officials said. Gebran Tueni, the head of An-Nahar newspaper who was elected to parliament this year, died in the explosion. He had returned to Lebanon on Sunday from Paris, where he had been staying for fear of being assassinated, news agencies reported. A Red Cross worker at the scene said four people died in the blast, which injured about 30 people and destroyed more than half a dozen vehicles. A high-ranking Lebanese security source said Tueni's cell phone and laptop computer were found at the site of the bombing. Journalist Anthony Mills called it "a scene of destruction," saying windows were broken in buildings for hundreds of meters. Video from the scene showed several burned-out vehicles along the roadway. At least 10 cars were destroyed, some tossed into a valley in the hilly Christian Mkalles area on Beirut's eastern entrance, The Associated Press reported. The attack followed a series of bombings targeting people viewed as supporting the opposition and rejecting Syrian influence in the country." (CNN) |
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