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An estimated 200 people were killed in the ensuing 24 hours. Residents tried to flee through a tunnel to Batroun but the attackers blocked the exit. Many were killed as their cars caught fire, and they suffocated to death. [10] Tel al-Zaatar massacre: August 12, 1976: Beirut: 1,500–5,000 Palestinians: Kataeb Regulatory Forces
3rd Hermel bombing (February 22) – A suicide car bombing targeting an army post in Hermel killed 3 people including 2 soldiers and wounded 17 others. The Lebanon branch of the Nusra Front, a radical Syrian rebel force, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, saying it was part of a "series of vengeful attacks". [42]
Seven other people including his driver also died and nearly eighty people were wounded in the huge blast. [38] December 4, 2013 Hassan al-Laqqis, military commander of Hezbollah: Hadath: Shooting ISIS in Lebanon: A number of gunmen shot him in the head in his car from close range as he arrived at his home December 27, 2013
As the Lebanese people historically call France la tendre mère (English: The Tender Mother), not only is speaking French in Lebanon common and encouraged, [citation needed] but it is also a self-identification with the French liberal and cultural spirit that was mainly the result of the French colonial period and educational, Christian ...
Bucharest, Romania: 4: Hădăreni riots: 20 September 1993: Hădăreni, Mureș County, Romania: 3: 2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting: 5 March 2012: Bucharest, Romania: 5: A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. Gheorghe Dinca killings: 25 July 2019: Caracal, Romania: 2: A 65-year old man is ...
Ismo Junni: killed his wife in 1980, then killed four people in arson attacks at the Kivinokka allotment garden in Helsinki from 1986 to 1989; died by suicide while in custody. [ 193 ] Ensio Koivunen : known as "Häkä-Enska"; abducted and murdered three female hitchhikers between July and August 1971; sentenced for 25 years to prison, but ...
Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon: April 16, 1989: killed by a rocket [citation needed] Philippe Bernard: French Ambassador to Zaire Kinshasa Zaire: January 28, 1993: killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers [6] Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch: Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica Kingston Jamaica: November 6 ...
Many of its people were killed in battle or in the massacre that followed, and others were forced to flee. [2] According to Robert Fisk, the town was the first to be subject to ethnic cleansing in the Lebanese Civil War. [3] The massacre was retaliation for the Karantina massacre by the Phalangists. [4]