11 die in Beirut blast
NZPA-Reuter Beirut A truck exploded near a petrol station in a residential neighbourhood of Beirut crowded with midday traffic yesterday killing five policemen and six civilians. Fifteen other pedestrians
and taxi occupants were injured in the blast, which came only five days after a powerful explosion demolished the five-storey Iraqi Embassy several blocks away in mostly Muslim west Beirut, the police said.
While rescue teams were still searching for victims buried under the rubble of the Iraqi Embassy, including the ambassador and his senior aides, the latest bombing occurred in the U.N.E.S.C.O. neighbourhood
at 12.10 p.m. The deaths brought to 209 the total of people killed in a chain of huge bombings, mostly by car bombs, in Beirut, as well as northern and southern Lebanese cities since September 17.
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