REPORT: Sources to LBCI: One person killed in Hermel's explosion

Sources told LBCI on Friday that DNA tests proved that only one person was killed in Hermel's explosion; and that all human remains belong to the suicide bomber and victim Houssein Amr 

This as same sources asserted to LBCI that the security apparatuses have created a sketch of Hermel's suicide bomber.

Meanwhile, judicial police completed the gathering of information from the explosion's site in the Hermel region.

As well, Hermel's municipality inspected the damaged institutions, stores, cars and houses.

On another note, the majority of injured people left hospitals after receiving the necessary medical treatments, while 3 remained in the Batoul Hospital, and 6 others in the Al Ali Hospital.

A car bomb exploded near a local government building in the Lebanese town of Hermel on Thursday 16 January.

Security sources told LBCI that a suicide bomber had detonated the explosive laden vehicle, a black Kia SUV parked on the side of the road near a bank.

The sources said the vehicle used in Hermel car bomb attack is a Kia Sportage holding registration plate number 55597/B, which belongs to Nazareth Tohanian and was stolen from Antelias in November.

Meanwhile, Hermel’s Mayor Sobhi Saqr stated that the booby-trapped car arrived thirty minutes before the explosion and parked on the side of the road near Societe Generale bank, adding that the grenade found at the crime scene is not related to the explosion.

Hermel is in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley near its northern border with Syria and is known as a stronghold of Hezbollah.

The explosion was the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Lebanon in recent months as the civil war in Syria increasingly spills over into its smaller neighbor.

The violence has targeted both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, further stoking sectarian tensions that are already running high as each community in Lebanon lines up behind its brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.


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