A powerful bomb has killed a senior Lebanese police intelligence officer and three others in east Beirut.
Capt Wissam Eid had been leading inquiries into a string of bombings that have shaken Lebanon since 2004.
His convoy was blown apart as it passed an explosives-laden vehicle detonated by remote control near a major highway. Crisis-hit Lebanon has been unable to elect a president amid rivalry between the Western-backed government and the opposition supported by Syria and Iran.
Bomb attacks over the last three years have targeted prominent members of the anti-Syrian movement, but since last month they have also struck an army chief and a US embassy vehicle.
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