Garda-led investigating team to arrive in Lebanon

A United Nations-appointed team led by Deputy Garda Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald will arrive in Beirut in the next two days to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The United States and France had led calls for an international investigation of the February 14 explosion on a Beirut seafront that destroyed Hariri’s motorcade of armour-plated vehicles, killing him and 16 others and injuring more than 100 people.