Lebanese legislator dies of wounds from Hariri bombing

Legislator Bassel Fleihan died in a Paris hospital today from wounds sustained in the February 14 bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese television reported.

A former minister of the economy, Fleihan had been flown to France with severe burns days after the bombing that killed a total of 21 people, and wounded more than 100 others.

The bomb exploded as Hariri’s motorcade was passing along a seafront boulevard in central Beirut.