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Peaceful palestinians letting off a little steam.
At least 10 killed in Beirut blast
At least 10 people were killed and an unknown number were wounded in an explosion on a main road in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday.
Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars at the site of the previous explosion in Beirut, 15/01/08 Photo: AP
Local networks say that the device was a stationary bomb weighing around 40kg.
It is currently thought that the probable target of the attack a senior Lebanese police officer involved in recent clashes with the Palestinian al-Qaeda-linked Fatah Al-Islam group in the northern Lebanon town of Nahr el- Bared.
Lebanese media reported that he was killed in the blast.
Lebanon has been hit by a series of explosions, some of them political assassinations, amid a deepening 14-month political crisis.
The explosion came a day after a labor strike that was largely peaceful, and 10 days after a car bomb aimed at a US Embassy car killed three bystanders.