Legislator Bassel Fleihan died in a Paris hospital Monday of wounds sustained in the Feb. 14 bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese television reported. A former minister of the economy, Fleihan had been flown to France with severe burns days after the bombing that killed a total of 21 people, including Fleihan, and wounded more than 100 others. The bomb exploded as Hariri's motorcade was passing along a seafront boulevard in central Beirut.
