NO ARMENIANS AMONG VICTIMS OF BEIRUT BLAST

A car bomb Friday killed one of Lebanon’s top terrorism investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent anti-Syrian figures and a series of other attacks in recent years. Capt. Wissam Eid, 31, worked for the police intelligence agency which is closely tied to the Western-backed government and had survived two previous assassination attempts. The attack also killed his bodyguard and three passers-by and wounded 37 people, police said, the AP reports. Shahan Kandaharian, the editor of Beirut-based Azdak newspaper told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that there are no Armenians among the victims. However, one Armenian was injured and a shop belonging to an Armenian was damaged in January 15 bomb blast targeting a U.S. embassy vehicle in a northern suburb of Beirut, he said.

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