Anti-Syrian parliamentarian assassinated

LEBANESE anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido was killed yesterday when a bomb ripped through his car in western Beirut, security sources said.

One of Mr Eido’s sons was among the nine others killed by the blast on Beirut’s seafront which also wounded at least 11 people.

Mr Eido, 64, was a member of the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the Beirut government.