No Armenians among victims of Beirut blast

PanARMENIAN.Net - A car bomb Friday killed one of Lebanon's top terrorism investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent anti-Syrian figures and a series of other attacks in recent years.



Capt. Wissam Eid, 31, worked for the police intelligence agency which is closely tied to the Western-backed government and had survived two previous assassination attempts. The attack also killed his bodyguard and three passers-by and wounded 37 people, police said, the AP reports.



Shahan Kandaharian, the editor of Beirut-based Azdak newspaper told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that there are no Armenians among the victims.



However, one Armenian was injured and a shop belonging to an Armenian was damaged in January 15 bomb blast targeting a U.S. embassy vehicle in a northern suburb of Beirut, he said.