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Thursday 21 November 2013 - 09:54
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Irish FM condemns bombings near Iranian embassy in Beirut

London, Nov 21, IRNA Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore in a statement condemned the Tuesday terrorist attacks on the Iranian embassy in Beirut which left 23 people killed, including cultural attach Ebrahim Ansari.
I condemn the terrorist attack of Tuesday morning in Beirut without any condition and this savage attack which took lives of several people is unjustifiable, Gilmore said.


The two bomb blasts killed 23 people and injured 146 others on Tuesday. The attack targeted just 10 meters away from Iranian embassy in Beiruts Southern neighborhood of Jinah, inflicting much damage to the compound.

The main gate of the Iranian Embassy was blown out by the first explosion, and the second blast happened just meters away from the embassy.

A Lebanese government source said Ansari was entering the embassy as the blasts took place, adding that the Iranian official died of his wounds at a Beirut hospital.

Head of the Iranian Embassys security team and five of his men have also been among more than two dozen people killed in the twin blasts which struck an area near the embassy compound in Beirut Tuesday morning.

By IRNA

 

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