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Mourners grieve at funerals for Tripoli bomb victims

2013-08-24 90 Dailymotion

The sound of gunfire punctuates the funerals of two bomb victims in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.<br/> <br />42 people died and hundreds were injured when twin bombs hit two mosques just after Friday prayers.<br/> <br />Salafist cleric Dai Al-Islam Al-Shahhal was among hundreds attending the funerals alongside mourners and gunmen.<br/> <br />One distraught father called for his son to be returned to him.<br/> <br />The apparently co-ordinated blasts were the biggest and deadliest in Tripoli since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990.<br/> <br />The recent resurgence of sectarian violence in Lebanon has been stoked by the bloody conflict in Syria where President Bashar al-Assad is fighting a largely Sunni Muslim-led rebellion.

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