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Lebanon car bomb kills four in Hezbollah stronghold

2014-01-16 29 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A suicide car bomber killed himself and three other people, and wounded 26 in a Hezbollah stronghold on Lebanon's northern border with Syria on Thursday.<br/> <br />The car bomb went off near a local government building in the center of Hermel, a town at the northern end of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a predominantly Shi'ite Muslim area, shattering windows and damaging nearby buildings.<br/> <br />A Reuters photographer said he saw body parts strewn across the street and people with shrapnel wounds in the area of the blast, outside a building that houses local government offices. Hospitals were calling on people to give blood, he said.<br/> <br />Hezbollah-controlled areas in Lebanon have been targeted by a series of bombings and rocket attacks claimed by hardline Sunni militants. Four car bombs have exploded in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut since July.<br/> <br />Violence from the civil war in Syria has spilled over into the Mediterranean country and Shi'

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