PanARMENIAN.Net

No Armenians among victims of Beirut blast
26.01.2008 14:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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.