LEBANON: AT LEAST SEVEN KILLED IN CAR BOMB BLAST AT MOSQUE.

Record ID: 358252

  • Title: LEBANON: AT LEAST SEVEN KILLED IN CAR BOMB BLAST AT MOSQUE.
  • Date: 1st February 1985
  • Summary: 1. GV Damaged building with masonry falling. 0.08 2. GVs Debris in street, crowd gathered. (4 SHOTS) 0.28 3. GV Burnt out engine of car bomb. 0.39 4. GV TILT DOWN Demolition truck and engine of car bomb. 0.46 5. GVs Truck pulls down facade of building. (2 SHOTS) 1.04 6. GVs & SVs Dead in morgue, people looking at bodies. (4 SHOTS) 1.22 7. GV INTERIOR Man with back
  • Embargoed: 16th February 1985 12:00
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  • Location: TRIPOLI, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1025CGD43OZWU7I3R9Q8L7QN3
  • Story Text: TRIPOLI, LEBANON

    At least seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a crowded mosque in the northern town of Tripoli on January 31. It was the first explosion in Tripoli for several months, though there have been a series of car bomb explosions in Beirut recently. Police said that a blue Mercedes packed with 60 kilograms (130 pounds) of TNT was parked 30 metres (33 yards) from the Iman Ali mosque where Sunni Moslems were worshipping; most of the victims were standing in the street. The force of the explosion knocked down a derelict house nearby. Police said that of fifty people wounded in the blast at least a quarter were Christian, though the mosque was clearly the intended target. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion but fundamentalist Sunni Moslem leader Sheikh Saeed Shaaban accuses Jews and Christian Falangists of planting the bomb.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - LOUIS BREYTENBACH</strong>
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