Tripoli kills
NZPA-AP ( Tripoli ( Tripoli’s eight hqs- .( pitals were filled with ( casualties, ( and ) morgues were) packed with victims Of a car ( bombing on Saturday ! — Lebanon’s worst I bombing in I three ! years, the police said. c Deaths catised by i the bombing (climbed to 69 yesterday after' 15 of the wounded' died in hospitals. .( ( Officials in the; northern port; city de-! dared two days of public mourning for! victims of thle explosion, which Occurred: in a crowded vege-i -.table market.' The ex-! plosion knocked down buildings and set! dozens of cars on fire.' The police said 111) people were wounded from the blast in (the! Tabbaneh district ! of Tripoli, the country's second-largest city. | Civil-defenbe rescue teams who ( clawed through rubble during the night called (off their search early yesterday after dragf ging a 33-year-old survivor to safety about, midnight, police said.; The man w(as buried for more (than 16 hours, and had to be taken to a hospital 24km south of Tripoli, because the city’s hospitals were already overflowing with casualties. : (( Police said a black pickup truck used In the bombing! had been loaded with vegetables and (150 kg Of TNT. . I : |'
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