A car bomb killed a police intelligence officer involved in the investigation of previous assassinations in Lebanon, in an attack that hit the heart of a Christian suburb of Beirut yesterday. Police chief Brigadier-General Ashraf Rifi named the officer targeted in the blast while on his way to work as Captain Wisam Eid. A bodyguard and two other people were also killed. Thirty-eight people were wounded.

Capt. Eid, 31, worked for an intelligence unit widely viewed as close to anti-Syrian ruling coalition leader Saad al-Hariri and which was frequently criticised by the Syrian-backed opposition.

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