The World - News from June 8, 1988
A car bomb exploded near a Syrian army checkpoint in southern Beirut’s seaside Ouzai district, touching off a gun battle between Syrian troops and pro-Iranian militia members. Lebanese police said four people were killed and 39 were wounded in the blast. Afterward, a carload of militia members from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah (Party of God), a radical Shia Muslim group, raced to the scene. When Syrian soldiers and Lebanese police officers ordered them out of the car, a gunfight ensued in which two gunmen were killed and a passer-by was hurt.
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