Blast in Lebanon kills one and injures three
Published: 07 June, 2007, 22:37
One man has died and three have been wounded in a blast in Lebanon. The explosion set off large fire in several buildings in a Christian area north of Beirut. One building has been badly damaged.
It took fire-fighters 90 minutes to put off the large fire.This is the fifth blast rocking Beirut since May 20, when Lebanese troops and Fatah Islam militants began battling at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country.The four previous explosions killed one person and left around 40 others wounded.
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