#Lebanon buries slain minister
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The coffin of former Lebanese finance minister Mohammad Shatah, is carried into the Mohammed al-Amin mosque in downtown #Beirut, on December 29, 2013, two days after he was killed in a car bomb that detonated as he drove past. (Photo: AFP - Anwar Amro)
Hundreds of people paid their respects to Lebanon’s former finance minister Mohammed Shatah and his bodyguard at their funeral Sunday in downtown Beirut. The 62-year-old adviser to ex-prime minister Saad Hariri and leading #MARCH_14 figure was among seven people killed in a massive car bomb in the Lebanese capital on Friday. Former primer minister Fuad Siniora eulogized Shatah at the funeral, which took place at the Mohammed al-Amin mosque where he was buried next to another former premier, Rafik Hariri, himself (...)