Lebanon Car Bomb Toll Climbs to 70
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Tripoli was brought to a standstill Monday as citizens went on strike to protest the nation’s worst car bombing in three years. The death toll in the blast rose to 70.
Police said 100 people remained hospitalized after Saturday’s blast in a crowded vegetable market in this northern port city.
A man wounded in the explosion in the low-income Bab al Tabbaneh district died early Monday, increasing the total number of dead to 70.
Schools, shops, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, banks and other businesses were closed Monday throughout Lebanon’s second-largest city, whose 850,000 people are predominantly Sunni Muslim.
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