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Explosion north of Beirut kills one
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-23 09:02 An explosion rocked a Christian area north of
Beirut early Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding two others,
police said.
Police had no immediate word on what caused the blast near Jounieh, the main
Christian port city 10 miles north of Beirut's center.
![An anti-U.S.
Lebanese
protestor gestures with his hand during a demonstration near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday March 22, 2005. [AP]](xin_420302230903132138166.jpg)
An anti-U.S. Lebanese protestor gestures with
his hand during a demonstration near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar northeast
of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday March 22, 2005.
[AP] | LBC TV, the leading station in the country,
said three people were killed and two wounded in the blast, which occurred
shortly after midnight.
The explosion came amid major political turmoil in Lebanon in the wake of the
Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the subsequent
withdrawal of Syrian troops to east Lebanon and Syria. Demonstrations and
counter-demonstrations, although largely peaceful, have kept tension high
between the pro-Syrian and the anti-Syrian camps.
Early Saturday, a car bomb in a northern Christian suburb of Beirut injured
nine people.
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