Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian journalist
AFP, Beirut
Prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir was killed yesterday in a car bomb explosion in a residential sector of mostly Christian east Beirut, an AFP correspondent said. The body of Kassir was in the front passenger seat of a car parked in the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, which was immediately sealed off by the Lebanese army and internal security forces. Witnesses said another person was injured in the explosion and taken to hospital. The killing came four days after the start of Lebanon's first parliamentary elections free of the presence of Syrian troops, whose withdrawal from the country was completed in late April after a 29-year deployment. The victim's brother, Sleiman Kassir, told AFP that "Samir lived all his life in danger."
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