LEBANON: FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR THE FOMER GOVERNMENT MINISTER BASIL FULEIHAN WHO DIED OF HIS BURNS AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN BLAST THAT KILLED RAFIK AL-HARIRI

Record ID: 419923

  • Title: LEBANON: FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR THE FOMER GOVERNMENT MINISTER BASIL FULEIHAN WHO DIED OF HIS BURNS AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN BLAST THAT KILLED RAFIK AL-HARIRI
  • Date: 22nd April 2005
  • Summary: (BN09) BEIRUT, LEBANON (APRIL 22, 2005) (FUTURE TV) 1. SLV PLANE CARRYING FORMER ECONOMY MINISTER BASIL FULEIHAN'S (WHO WAS SITTING IN CAR WITH FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAFIK AL-HARIRI) COFFIN ON TARMAC 0.06 2. SV COFFIN BEING TAKEN OUT OF PLANE 0.23 3. SV FULEIHAN'S WIDOW YASMA RECEIVING CONDOLENCES 0.28 4. SLV COFFIN CONVOY DRIVING ON 0.36 5. PAN FULEIHAN'S WIDOW AND OTHERS AT HARIRI'S GRAVE 0.49 (W3) BEIRUT, LEBANON (APRIL 22, 2005) (REUTERS) 6. TV HOSPITAL STAFF GATHERED AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 0.53 7. CU/SV MEDICAL STAFF (2 SHOTS) 1.04 8. CU BADGE WITH IMAGE OF FORMER FINANCE MINISTER BASIL FULEIHAN 1.07 9. SLV/MCU FULEIHAN FAMILY WAITING FOR HIS COFFIN TO BE BROUGHT OUT OF MORGUE (2 SHOTS) 1.15 10. TV COFFIN DRAPED IN LEBANESE FLAG CARRIED OUT OF MORGUE AND PUT INTO HEARSE 1.22 11. CU OLD WOMAN WATCHING 1.25 12. TV COFFIN BEING PUT INTO CAR 1.39 13. TV MEDICAL STAFF WATCHING/RELATIVES WALKING BEHIND COFFIN (2 SHOTS) 1.52 14. SLV FUNERAL CARS LEAVING HOSPITAL 2.03 15. CU LARGE POSTER OF FULEIHAN AND HARIRI OUTSIDE HARIRI'S RESIDENCE 2.06 16. SLV FULEIHAN'S BROTHER AND RELATIVES WALKING BEHIND FUNERAL CAR AS IT ARRIVES AT HARIRI'S RESIDENCE (2 SHOTS) 2.17 17. SV PEOPLE CHEERING OUTSIDE RESIDENCE 2.24 18. SV FUNERAL CAR WITH FULEIHAN'S COFFIN BEING BROUGHT OUT 2.28 19. SV PEOPLE WITH LEBANESE FLAGS/HARIRI'S SON, SAED, MARCHING BEHIND COFFIN (2 SHOTS) 2.48 20. CU BANNER WITH FULEIHAN'S PHOTOGRAPH OUTSIDE HIS RESIDENCE PAN TO PROCESSION 2.58 21. SV FULEIHAN'S WIDOW, YASMA, AND RELATIVES OUTSIDE BUILDING 3.03 22. CU WOMAN CRYING 3.08 23. PAN OF CROWD AND COFFIN ON CARRIAGE 3.16 24. MCU MAN CHANTING 3.22 25. SV GUESTS AND RELATIVES AROUND COFFIN CARRIAGE 3.33 26. LV/SV FUNERAL PROCESSION, WITH FULEIHAN'S WIDOW AND HER TWO CHILDREN, HEADING TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCH (3 SHOTS) 3.51 27. SV PRIESTS MARCHING BEHIND COFFIN 3.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th May 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA27QWYVB701T14WCHFK8XKIAQE
  • Story Text: Funeral procession through streets of Beirut for
    former government minister Fuleihan who died of his burns
    two months after being caught in blast that killed Hariri.



    The funeral procession for former Lebanese Finance
    minister Basil Fuleihan wound its way through Beirut on
    Friday (April 22, 2005) after the arrival of his body on a dawn
    flight from Paris. Fuleihan died on Monday (April 18, 2005) of
    severe burns sustained in the car bomb that killed former
    Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, last February 14.

    Fuleihan's coffin was driven from the American
    University Hospital to the Hariri's villa before being
    taken to his family home. Hundreds of mourners, including
    his family, friends and senior officials, gathered outside
    Fuleihan's residence for the funeral procession.

    The flag-draped coffin was then taken on a carriage to
    the Anglican church for prayers.

    Fuleihan died at the Percy Military Hospital in France
    after struggling for 64 days with agonising burns covering
    90 percent of his body. He had been sitting in the front
    seat of Hariri's car when the explosion went off.

    Fuleihan will be buried in Beirut in the afternoon.


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