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Bombing 'abhorrent'
14/06/2007 07:22 - (SA)
London - Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Wednesday condemned a bomb attack in Lebanon which killed a prominent anti-Syrian lawmaker and a number of others, describing it as "abhorrent".
"I utterly condemn the bombing that took place in Beirut this evening," she said in a statement released by her department.
"This abhorrent attack on Lebanon and its people has killed a number of innocent people including the MP Walid Ido and his son. My thoughts and sympathies are with the families of those killed and injured."
Ido - who chaired the Lebanese parliament's defence committee and was a member of the Future Movement party of Saad Hariri, whose father, the former premier Rafiq Hariri, was assassinated in 2005 - died in a blast in Beirut.
His eldest son and two bodyguards were also killed with six other people when a booby-trapped car exploded.
Britain is a strong supporter of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's government.
Prime Minister Tony Blair visited him for talks in Beirut in September last year, soon after the end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah militants and pledged to help in the rebuilding of Lebanon.
Blair has previously accused Syria of undermining Lebanon's administration but has stopped short of accusing Damascus of involvement in Hariri's death in a car bomb attack.
Beckett said on Wednesday: "We and the international community will continue to support the Lebanese government and call on all sides to address their differences through peaceful dialogue."
- AFP
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