Beirut bomb blast: the aftermath and the protests - in pictures
A car explosion in Beirut killed eight people, including one of Lebanon's top security chiefs, and wounded 86, sparking protests across the country
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A car burns at the site of an explosion in Ashrafieh, east Beirut
Photograph: Reuters
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An injured woman is carried away from the scene of the explosion in the mostly Christian neighbourhood of Ashrafieh
Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP
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A firefighter extinguishes flames at the scene of the explosion in Ashrafieh
Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP
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A wounded woman is supported at the site of the blast in Ashafrieh
Photograph: Reuters
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Soldiers move people away from the site of the blast in Ashrafieh
Photograph: Reuters
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A Lebanese woman covers her nose as she walks through a road blocked by protesters and barricades in Beirut
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Lebanese Sunni gunmen drive through streets of Tripoli in protest against the assassination of intelligence chief General Wissam al-Hassan
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Lebanese security forces inspect the damage caused by a massive car bomb in Beirut's predominantly Christian district of Ashrafieh
Photograph: Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images
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Lebanese men chant slogans in Martyrs' Square during a protest against the killing of Wissam al-Hassan
Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
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Workers clean glass near the scene of the explosion caused by a massive car bomb
Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA
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A Lebanese protester runs behind burning tyres as demonstrators block a road in the southern city of Sidon
Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
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Lebanese security forces inspecting the scene of the explosion
Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA
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A Lebanese woman holds a picture of the director general of the Lebanese internal security forces, General Ashraf Rifi, as protesters carry flowers during the march in the Ashrafieh Christian residential area a day after the car bomb attack in Beirut
Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA
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Boys push a cart through a road block of burning rubbish skips laid by Sunni protesters angry at the killing of Hassan
Photograph: Ahmad Omar/AP
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Lebanese women take part in a candlelit vigil near the site of the car bomb attack
Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA
