REPORT: New explosive material used in the Roueis explosion

Security sources told LBCI on Saturday that the explosive device used in South Beirut’s explosion was not only made from TNT, but also from metal parts to ensure that it injures the largest number of citizens in the region.                                

Earlier, investigation sources told An-Nahar newspaper that a new explosive material had been used in the Roueis explosion, stressing that it is different than the TNT and C4 explosive materials.                          

An-Nahar added that information whether the 60 kg explosive was remotely detonated or through a suicide bomber.        

A powerful car bomb tore through the Beirut Southern Suburbs' region of Roueis, a stronghold of Hezbollah Thursday, claiming the lives of 24 civilians and leaving more than 289 wounded, some of whom are still receiving treatment.            

Forensic investigators, emergency workers and security forces were still working at the site, amid burnt out cars and charred facades of residential buildings.
                                       
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.                                 

A Sunni Islamist group calling itself the Brigades of Aisha claimed responsibility for the attack and promised more operations against Hezbollah in a video posted on YouTube. 

International Positions:               

The Gulf Cooperation Council denounced the attack that targeted Southern Beirut’s Roueis region.               

In this regard, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said “this criminal act targets Lebanon’s stability and security,” adding that it aims at destabilizing the formula of coexistence in order to incite strife among Lebanese citizens.


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