{"id":3198,"date":"2015-11-12T18:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2015-11-13T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T08:04:17","slug":"deadly-blasts-hit-beirut-at-least-43-killed-hundreds-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/deadly-blasts-hit-beirut-at-least-43-killed-hundreds-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly blasts hit Beirut, at least 43 killed, hundreds injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEIRUT (Lebanon) \u2014 Two deadly\u00a0blasts have killed more than 40 people and wounded nearly 200 according to the Lebanese Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blasts were caused by two suicide bombers who carried out a coordinated attack Thursday in a crowded area of southern Beirut controlled by the Hezbollah, local media <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Lebanon-News\/2015\/Nov-12\/322792-two-blasts-heard-in-south-beirut-suburb-of-burj-al-barajneh-witnesses.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a><\/span>. The number of people killed\u00a0as gone up to 43, the Lebanese Red Cross informs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-cards=\"hidden\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">37 dead and 181 injured until now in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Burj_Al_Barajneh?src=hash\">#Burj_Al_Barajneh<\/a> explosion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BfOxamWWLi\">pic.twitter.com\/BfOxamWWLi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lebanese Red Cross (@RedCrossLebanon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedCrossLebanon\/status\/664858704274034690\">November 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>There was extensive damage to buildings around the site of the blast and bodies inside some of the nearby shops, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>There was blood on the streets, and security forces were trying to cordon off the scene and keep people from gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces are trying to block the neighborhood and disperse the crowd so that the ambulance cars could get to the site.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon has been rocked by several explosions this year, which have killed dozens of people. The latest attack saw a bomb blast in the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border. The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle and killed six people, according to the National News Agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nDouble blast in southern Beirut suburb of Burj al-Barajneh, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lebanon?src=hash\">#Lebanon<\/a>. At least 8 martyrs and dozens more wounded. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dbpz2f9V6l\">pic.twitter.com\/Dbpz2f9V6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Haidar Sumeri (@IraqiSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiSecurity\/status\/664844382756057088\">November 12, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT (Lebanon) \u2014 Two deadly\u00a0blasts have killed more than 40 people and wounded nearly 200 according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[214,32,356,15,11],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/beirut-lebanon-blast.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-PA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}