A three-year-old Lebanese boy orphaned in the
deadly twin suicide blasts that ripped through a southern neighborhood of Beirut is not likely to remember much of the explosion that killed his parents, but the pain and terror of the previous night were etched on his face on Friday.
Haider was sitting in his mother’s lap in the front seat of the family’s SUV as his father, Hussein Mustafa, was parking the car on Thursday evening near his grandparents’ home in the predominantly Shia neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh.
At that moment, the first suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest outside a nearby Shia mosque. The densely populated district is part of the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahyeh, where the militant Hezbollah group holds sway.
The extremist Islamic State group
quickly claimed the attack, which shattered a relative calm that has held for more than a year despite the civil war raging next door in Syria.
On Friday, forensic science experts dressed in white were working in the area of the blast, which was sealed off by security forces. Residents and shop owners swept up broken glass and other debris from the scene of the attacks.
“They are people without conscience. May they get worse than what happened to us,” said Nazmiyeh Tarif, whose cousin Adel Termos died in the second bombing.
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Attacks targeting Shiites in Baghdad, including a suicide bombing at a funeral in a mosque, killed at least 19 people Friday, security and medical officials said.
The suicide bombing inside the Al-Ashara al-Mubashareen mosque in the Amil area of south Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded 33, the officials said.
Two officials said the funeral was for a member of the volunteer paramilitary force known as the Popular Mobilisation units.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but suicide bombings are a tactic used exclusively by Sunni extremists in Iraq, including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group, who consider Shiites to be heretics.
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