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Signs are suicide bomber killed Hariri - Minister BEIRUT, Tuesday (Reuters) Initial investigations into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri show the car bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker, Lebanon's interior minister said on Tuesday. Suleiman Franjieh told reporters the car carrying the bomb which killed Hariri in Beirut on Monday appeared to have been in motion and approached its target before going off. "It could have been that someone was driving the car and it might have a been a suicide (attacker) who blew himself up," he said. He said the bomb crater was in the middle of the road, indicating the car was not parked at the roadside when it exploded. A previously unknown Islamist group said in a video aired on Monday by Al Jazeera television it had carried out a suicide attack against Hariri because he supported the Saudi government. Lebanese security forces said on Monday they had stormed the house of a Palestinian man who appeared in the video reading a claim of responsibility. Ahmed Tayseer Abu Adas was not in the house. Franjieh said DNA tests were under way on the remains of a body found at the scene of the explosion to establish whether they belonged to Abu Adas. His mother and sisters had given themselves up to police for questioning, he said. The DNA of hair taken from his mother would be compared with that of the remains, he said. Abu Adas told his family in January he was leaving for Iraq. They had not seen him since Jan. 15 when he left the house, Franjieh said. |
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