3 People, Including Child, Injured in Jabal Mohsen Explosion
Three people, including a child, were wounded on Thursday in a bomb blast in the northern port city of Tripoli, a security official said.
Zein al-Alouf, 10, was seriously wounded when the bomb exploded in the mainly Alawite Jabal Mohsen area, the official told Agence France Presse.
Two adults, Salem Hammoudi and Mahmoud Salman al-Hassan, were also moderately wounded. The army has launched an investigation, the source added.
However, Future News said the Jabal Mohsen blast could have resulted from the explosion of a canister used to weld cars.
In recent years Tripoli has been hit by deadly sectarian violence between the city”s Sunni and Alawite communities and by sporadic bombings, mainly targeting the Lebanese army.
In the summer of 2007, the army fought a 15-week battle with the al-Qaida inspired Fatah al-Islam group in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared near Tripoli that left 400 people dead, including 168 soldiers.