Cardinal Rai says Roueis explosion condemned by all the Lebanese people

   
Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Rai condemned on Saturday the explosion that rocked Beirut's Southern Suburbs, noting that the incident was strongly denounced by all the Lebanese people.           

In a speech he delivered at Mar Gerges Church in Faytroun, Cardinal Rai voiced his regret that the Lebanese people are deeply divided, stressing the need to hold dialogue among the Lebanese officials.

On Thursday, A powerful car bomb tore through the Beirut Southern Suburbs' region of Roueis, a stronghold of Hezbollah, claiming the lives of 25 civilians and leaving more than 289 wounded, some of whom are still receiving treatment.                

The blast, a month after another car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same district of the Lebanese capital, came amid sectarian tensions over the intervention of Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah against Sunni rebels in Syria's civil war.