Lebanon Unrest Spreads to Several Provinces
The unrest in Lebanon following the election of President Michel Suleiman has spread to other provinces.
In the eastern town of Saadnayal, an explosion went off in an auto upholstery repair shop. No casualties were reported from the 500-gram TNT bomb.
In a separate incident, inspector Ghusoub Shouman with Lebanon”s General-Security Department escaped Thursday a grenade attack and bullet shots in the Western Bekaa Valley town of al-Suwairi.
Security sources said unknown assailants tossed a hand grenade followed by automatic gunfire fire at Shouwan as he and his family battled to put out a blaze in his BMW car that had been set on fire deliberately.
Meanwhile, the body of 17-year old Haydar Awada was found near the Jaafarite Dar el-Fatwa in the southern port city of Tyre.
Security sources said Awada, a resident of the densely-populated al-Masakin neighborhood in Tyre, was shot and killed by unknown assailants early Thursday.