For the second time in just over two weeks, a suicide bombing has stopped trembling neighbors Haret Hreik, Dahiyeh a mixed neighborhood, the suburbs south of Beirut controlled by the Shiite militia Hezbollah - party. At least four people have died and 35 others were injured, as confirmed by the Red Cross, in charge of the evacuation of the victims, the National News Agency.
Dozens of black men with Hezbollah bracelets have cordoned off the street, where the army has been deployed, while the neighbors withdrew charred vehicles. The explosion occurred at the foot of an apartment building whose facade has been reduced to a blackened wall hanging balconies than they were before. Next door, a commercial center from which a group of men seen cleaning work is out of crystals.
Sources in the police investigation have confirmed to El PaÃ_s that the explosion, recorded at one of the main streets of the neighborhood around 1100 hours (one hour less in mainland Spain), occurred when a man, in unmarked vehicles parked, detonated the explosive charge he was carrying. " We do not know if exploded in the car or being sought out," they added. Several images that circulated between phones of residents in the area show the remains of the alleged perpetrator, who has left another unexploded explosive belt, scattered on the sidewalk.
"This time was not as strong as before," said Mohamed, who works in a bank branch located a few meters from ground zero. "It was almost in the same place as the last (bombing)," he says, " the last time we were only the director and in the office, but today we were all working when we heard the explosion." "This is an area where Hezbollah security depends," he mutters, "want to send the message that they are able to break it."
On 2 January, five people were killed and 70 wounded in the attack recorded on the same street. The neighborhood Dahiyeh wins to four attacks since last July, when an explosion caused fifty wounded. " What can we do? " Mohamed insists, "This is our fate in Lebanon."
This time, the attack was claimed by the self against Al Nusra arm in Lebanon. The group, linked to al Qaeda, has moved its struggle against the regime of Bashar al-Assad to the neighboring country in a systematic strategy whip against guerrilla ally of Damascus. "We have been able to respond to the massacres committed by the party of Iran against children in Syria and (the Lebanese town of) Arsal in a suicide operation that has reached the heart of the suburbs," reads the statement released through social networks, " call all the Sunni community in all Lebanese regions to unite and fight the party of the devil (in reference to Hezbollah)."
This is the second explosion attributed to Nusra Jabhat in Lebanon, whose look is allied militia in Damascus and Tehran since the Shiite leader, Hasan Nasrallah, openly announced the participation of their combatants in the war in support of Syrian Asad. Five days ago, the explosion of a car bomb in the Lebanese locaidad of Hermel, unquestionable Hezbollah stronghold in the eastern Bekaa Valley, left five others dead.
"Even the most innocent mind knows that this is related to Syria," says the book, " perhaps (negotiations) Geneva, things go better." "They want to warm to Hezbollah," he says in a coffee shop in the back street to the site of the attack Yusef, " but they have not killed anyone Hezbollah, they kill us for apoyarlos2. Young ran 30 years from his job in Hamra, across the city, as he heard what happened. "We live here," he says, " my wife and young son were home, the eldest was at school, the explosion was right behind her school. "
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