Security forces mentioned in Beirut's explosions
Lebanese parliamentarians on Saturday loomed to the responsibility of the Lebanese security forces which worked during the Syrian presence period for the al-Ashrafeyah explosions which took place on Friday evening and killed one person and injured other 22.
Beirut's parliamentarian Atef Majdalani, who belongs to al-Mustaqbal ( future) parliamentary bloc which is led by Saad al-Hariri, said that this explosion is "part of the coward terrorist series which will not stop before the discovering of the reality in the operation of assassinating the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri."
For his part, Tripoli parliamentarian and member of the parliamentary majority Elias Atta Allah said that even though former security leaders are in prison, their security departments are still active.
Worthy mentioning that four leaders of the Lebanese security forces close to Syria were arrested two weeks ago after they were accused of being involved in the assassination of al-Hariri on February 14.
Al-Ashrafeyah explosion took place after the lifting of the banking secrecy from the accounts of 8 Syrian and Lebanese figures suspected to be involved in the assassination, at the request of the UN investigating committee.
The Christian part of Beirut has witnessed 11 explosions since the assassination of Hariri. Two of these explosions claimed the life of the Lebanese journalist Samir al-Qasir and the leader of the former Lebanese communist party George Hawi, opposers of the Syrian existence in Lebanon.
The Lebanese security sources said the explosion resulted from a bomb of 10 to 20 kg weight, adding that it was implanted under stairway of a building rather than inside or under a car as stated earlier.
The explosions which took place near a branch for the Lebanese Bablous Bank in al-J'eitawi suburb in al-Ashrafeyag area of a Christian majority.
The explosion resulted in the collapse of the facade of one building and destruction of its balconies, adding that the Lebanese security forces cordoned the site of the explosion.
Lebanese security and medical sources said that the explosion resulted in killing one elderly man (Armenian) and injuring of 22 persons one of them is in a critical condition.
The explosion also resulted in setting fire in three cars which were stationed near the site of the explosion and damages were inflected in the nearby buildings.