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Lebanon in mourning after attacks by Islamic State in Beirut, the deadliest in 25 years

Lebanon has declared an official day of mourning for the attacks that left at least 41 dead and 200 injured after the explosion on Thursday, two suicide bombings in the capital, Beirut.

They were the deadliest attacks in Lebanon in 25 years, since the end of civil war in 1990.

The self-styled Islamic State gupo (EI) responsibility for the attacks, which took place in Burj al-Barajneh a mayoritamente Shiite stronghold area and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is fighting in neighboring Syria EI was attributed.


The Lebanese army said two men with suicide bombers carried out the attack.

The first detonated his explosive vest against a Shiite mosque and the second one blew himself up inside a nearby bakery.

The body of a third man came not to detonate their explosives was found at the scene of the second blast.

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