Assassination of Rafic Hariri

When

14 Feb 2005

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

33.90° N, 35.49° E

Description

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.

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2005 political murder in Beirut, Lebanon

On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel. Among the dead were several of Hariri's bodyguards and former Minister of Economy and Trade Bassel Fleihan.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Refik el-Hariri suikastı: Eski Lübnan başbakanı Refik el-Hariri, 21 kişi ile birlikte Beyrut'ta bir intihar bombacısı tarafından öldürüldü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der ehemalige libanesische Ministerpräsident Rafiq al-Hariri fällt mit 22 weiteren Menschen einem Attentat auf seinen Fahrzeugkonvoi zum Opfer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Beirut (Líbano) fallece en un brutal atentado el primer ministro Rafik Hariri, hecho que marca el principio del fin de la ocupación siria en el país”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page