Judge El-Zain receives claim in Roueis explosion

     
Military Investigating Judge Imad El-Zain was handed on Wednesday the Military General Prosecution's claim against an unknown in the Roueis explosion, will proceed to examine it.          
A powerful car bomb tore through the Beirut Southern Suburbs' region of Roueis, a stronghold of Hezbollah on Thursday the 15th of August, claiming the lives of 27 civilians and leaving more than 289 wounded.

This is the second explosion to target the area in the span of less than a couple of months. A large explosion rocked a stronghold of the Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday July 9th, setting several cars on fire and causing an estimated 53 injuries, security officials said.                                  

The violence raises the specter of Lebanon being pulled into the increasingly sectarian civil war raging next door in Syria.