Relief committee surveys damage caused by Nabi Othman blast

A team from the Higher Relief committee started on Tuesday a survey to check the damages that resulted from the Nabi Othman blast in northern Bekaa.
          
Upon the instructions of Prime Minister Tammam Salam, the Higher Relief committee acting head, Major General Mohammad Kheir, sent a team from the committee to take the appropriate procedures and measures in order to pay accommodation fees for the persons whose houses were damaged and are no longer suitable for habitation.              

At least three people were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Sunday March 16 in an apparent response to the fall of a rebel-held town to government forces across the border in Syria.                    

A security source said two of the dead from the blast in Nabi Othman were members of the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah whose fighters backed the Syrian army earlier in the day in their takeover of Yabroud.          

Hezbollah has been the target of repeated car bombings and rocket fire inside Lebanon during the past year over its involvement in Syria's civil war.