Beirut: Lebanon’s prime minister linked the massive car bomb that tore through Beirut to the civil war in neighbouring Syria on Saturday, the latest signal that the crisis is enflaming an already tense region. The blast Friday in the heart of Beirut’s Christian area killed eight people, including the country’s intelligence chief, Brigadier General Wissam Al Hassan. The government declared a national day of mourning for the victims on Saturday, but protesters took to the streets, burning tyres and setting up roadblocks around the country in a sign of the boiling anger over the bomb. The highway linking central Beirut with the city’s international airport was closed, as...
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