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Rescuers extract on a strecher a burned body from the first floor of a building destroyed 17 August 1985 in the Christian east Beirut after the explosion of a car bomb which brought down several buildings, killing 50 people and wounding 120. The bomb, estimated at 200 kilos (440 pounds), blew up as the car was being driven by a suicide bomber through a crowded street. The Lebanese civil war broke out in April 1975 when Palestinians made an attack on Maronit Christian Phalangists. Christian militia, backed by Christian Kataeb (Phalangist) party, massacred the passengers of a bus, who were mainly Palestinians. Intercommunal fighting between Christians and Muslims quickly spread. (Photo by Maher Attar/AFP Photo)
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