LEBANON: AFTERMATH OF EXPLOSIONS AT BEIRUT NEWSPAPER OFFICE IN WHICH ONE MAN DIED.

Record ID: 230401

  • Title: LEBANON: AFTERMATH OF EXPLOSIONS AT BEIRUT NEWSPAPER OFFICE IN WHICH ONE MAN DIED.
  • Date: 9th December 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV PAN EXT Newspaper office 0.06 2. SCU TILT UP Wreckage 0.14 3. GV Entrance TILT DOWN TO MV Glass and wreckage scattered over steps 0.22 4. SCU PAN TO Hole in floor ZOOM INTO CU showing more wreckage 0.32 5. GV Armed guard on door 0.37 6. CU Broken glass and wreckage through door 0.40 7. GV People outside building 0.43 Initials BB/0009 PK/DW/BB/0016 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th December 1972 12:00
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  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA1N7SAAFYZ1GWXRG3AUN6M2QEC
  • Story Text: A series of explosions wrecked an Arab political party newspaper office in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday (8 December), killing one man and injuring three others.

    The blast rocked a wide area of the surrounding residential district.

    The explosions occurred at the offices of Al-Raya newspaper, organ of a group of the Arab Baath Socialist Party.

    Police placed a guard on the building and began an immediate investigation into the explosions.

    SYNOPSIS: The office of the Al-Raya newspaper, organ of a group of the Arab Baath Socialist Party...wrecked in a series of explosions in Beirut, the capital of lebanon.

    One man was killed and three others injured in the blast that was felt over a wide area of the surrounding residential district.

    An armed police guard was placed on the building an immediate investigation begun.
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