Itongadol/AJN.- Blast that kills 6, including prominent anti-Hezbollah Lebanese minister, leads former PM Hariri to blame Hezbollah, but group denies allegation. Meanwhile, Lebanese say \’nowhere is safe\’
Damascus and Hezbollah rejected accusations by Lebanese officials that they were behind the Beirut car bomb blast that killed six people on Friday, including former minister Mohammad Chatah.
"These wrong and arbitrary accusations are made in a context of political hatred," said Syria\’s Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi, in remarks published by state news agency SANA.
Hezbollah said on Friday that the assassination only benefits Lebanon’s enemies.
“This ugly crime aims at destroying the country and is a sinful attempt to target stability and national unity which only benefits Lebanon’s enemies,” Hezbollah said in a statement. It further called on the Lebanese people to be “rational and wise in dealing with dangers facing their country.”
The March 14 alliance group – from which Chata and Hariri stem – vehemently condemned the assassination and implied that the Syria regime and Hezbollah were responsible for the ex-minister\’s death.
Chatah was killed Friday as he was heading to a March 14 meeting in Future Movement Saad Hariri’s residence in downtown Beirut, by a car bomb that left at least 70 people wounded