Lebanon's Chamoun Hurt in Assassination Attempt; 6 Killed

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 8, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

Former president Camille Chamoun, Lebanon's most prominent senior Christian leader, escaped with minor injuries in a car bomb assassination attempt today that killed three of his bodyguards and three other persons and wounded 40.

The 86-year-old Chamoun, who has encouraged resistance to Syrian involvement in Lebanon, survived at least three previous assassination attempts-in 1968, 1980 and in November 1985. He described today's attack as an "act of terrorism" and did not rule out suggestions that it might have been linked to a planned Syrian-Lebanese summit meeting.

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