Families mourn victims of Beirut suicide bombings

A three-year-old Lebanese boy orphaned in the deadly twin suicide blasts that ripped through a southern neighborhood of Beirut is not likely to remember much of the explosion that killed his parents, but the pain and terror of the previous night were etched on his face on Friday. Haider was sitting in his mother’s lap in the front seat of the family’s SUV as his father, Hussein Mustafa, was parking the car on Thursday evening near his grandparents’ home in the predominantly Shia neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh. At that moment, the first suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest outside a nearby Shia mosque. The densely populated district is part of the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahyeh, where the militant Hezbollah group holds sway. Haider’s parents died instantly while the boy was taken to the Hezbollah-run Rasoul al-Aazam hospital, where he was being treated for injuries to his right eye and minor burns to his hand. “His mother was hugging him as she died,” said Haider’s cousin, Adraa Taleb, who held back tears as she sat next to his hospital bed. The boy was one of seven children being treated at the hospital from the bombings. Dr Mahmoud Mansour,… Read full this story

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