BEIRUT - A Palestinian man was named Thursday as one of two suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the Iranian cultural centre in the capital's southern suburbs on Wednesday, killing at least four other people in other Syria-related violence. A Sunni militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as a reprisal for the intervention of Hezbollah and Iran in Syria.
Investigators used DNA samples to identify one of the suicide bombers as Nidal al-Mugheyir, a Palestinian man who security sources said was in his early 20s and had been a follower of hardline Lebanese Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Asir.
Mugheyir was a resident of the mainly Shi'ite village of Beisareya in southern Lebanon, where villagers torched his family home on Wednesday following reports he was behind the bomb attack. (Reuters)
