BEIRUT – Lebanese officials and the state-run news agency say the overnight suicide bombing in a southern Beirut neighbourhood killed a security officer and wounded 20 people.
The explosion occurred just after midnight on Monday near a checkpoint and a cafe in the Shatila area.
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The state-run news agency said on Tuesday that security officer Abdul-Karim Hodroj was killed. It wasn’t clear if the checkpoint was the intended target of the attack.
The wounded included people who had gathered at a cafe to watch World Cup matches.
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It was the second explosion in a week and comes amid mounting regional tensions over dramatic events in nearby Iraq, where the al-Qaida splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has seized large chunks of territory in the country’s north and west.
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