Suicide car bomb killed Hariri

2005-02-15 15:29

Beirut - Lebanese Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh said Tuesday that former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was almost certainly killed in a suicide car bombing but that the investigation was still under way.

"The security services are almost sure that it was a suicide car bomb. It is not an official announcement but it is almost sure," Franjieh told a press conference.

He said investigators were still looking for concrete evidence.

"The vehicle was not parked along the side of the road. The crater dug by the explosion was in the middle of the road. So the vehicle was alongside (Hariri's) convoy and could have tried to ram into it.

"It is possible that it was a suicide bomber who was driving it," he said.

- AFP