Lebanese politician Sheik Saleh Aridi killed in car bombing
Lebanese investigators inspect the car in which the politician Sheik Saleh Aridi was killed by a bomb. Photograph: Mahmoud Tawil/AP
A Lebanese politician died when his booby-trapped car exploded in hills east of the capital, Beirut, yesterday.
Sheik Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese Democratic party, had been trying to reconcile rival factions within the Druze community, a minority Muslim sect split along pro- and anti-Syrian lines.
Police said the bomb that killed him was planted in his car in the village of Baissour. It was the first Lebanese political assassination in about a year.
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