Top security official, 7 others killed Beirut car bomb, Lebanon’s deadliest attack in years

 BEIRUT — A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing a top security official and seven others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years.

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