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At least 45 people died and 175 injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

Friday 8th March 1985

At least 45 people died and 175 injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. The bomb went off outside a block of flats and close to a mosque as worshippers were gathering for Friday night prayers in a densely populated Shia Muslim suburb.

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