Lebanese Doctor Loses Legs in Car Bomb Blast
From Reuters
SIDON, Lebanon —
A pro-Iranian Shia Muslim doctor had both legs blown off today when his car exploded near this southern Lebanese port city, police said.
They said Ibrahim Atwi, director of Sidon’s government-run hospital, had just left his home village of Ghaziyeh when his booby-trapped car blew up.
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