A powerful bomb targeting a police convoy killed at least six people and wounded more than 20 in a Christian area of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday in what police at the scene said was suspected as a revenge attack, reported the DPA. "Captain Wissam Eid, his bodyguard and four other people," latest police reports said, changing previous accounts of 10 killed. "The confusion was because several bodies were badly burned and taken to hospital in critical conditions and they were counted before as dead," a police officer at the scene said. The bomb went off during rush hour in the Christian Hazmieh district of the capital. The dead included Eid, a high-ranking police captain in the security service and head of the technical department. "Wissam Eid was the target ... and innocent civilians also," the head of the military police Anwar Yehia told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on the scene. "This is an act of revenge, Eid was also the target of an assassination attempt in February 2006 when a hand grenade exploded at the doorstep of his house," a police source at the scene told dpa. Police chief Ashraf Rifi identified the dead officer as Captain Wissam Eid, whose vehicle was caught in the blast as he was on his way to work. A bodyguard was also killed.
