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Friday 13 Nov 2015 - 13:57 Makkah mean time-1-2-1437
Beirut, (IINA) - A pair of suicide bombings struck southern Beirut on Thursday, which resulted in the death of around 43 people and injury of 239 others, BBC reported citing Lebanese authorities.
Lebanese intelligence believes that the bombers could be part of a cell dispatched to Beirut by ISIS leadership. In a purported ISIS statement circulated on social media, the terror group claimed responsibility for the blasts. However, the authenticity of the claim is still unconfirmed.
The explosions detonated within 150 meters and five minutes of each other, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said, shaking an open-air market and other parts of the Bourj Al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut.
"There's a lot of shattered glass on the street, a lot of blood, and it's really just a scene of chaos and carnage," journalist Tamara Qiblawi told CNN shortly after the blasts.
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