Six killed in shooting at Hezbollah protest over Beirut explosion probe
Hezbollah blamed the Christian political party the Lebanese Forces for the attack.
Several people were killed in Beirut Thursday in a shooting at a protest.
A total of six people have been confirmed dead so far in addition to 32 wounded in relation to the shooting in south Beirut’s Tayouneh neighborhood, the Ministry of Public Health announced.
The shooting occurred at a protest organized by the Shiite Islamist groups Hezbollah and Amal. Their supporters were demonstrating over the government probe into the 2020 Beirut port explosion and calling for the “non-politicization” of the investigation, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV reported.
The probe is determining culpability for the deadly explosion, which killed more than 200 people and devastated the country. The blast occurred after 2,750 tons of the flammable fertilizer ammonium nitrate caught fire in a warehouse.
