Hours before the parliament convened to vote on the electoral law on Monday, an explosion occurred in al-Bahsas in Tripoli. Reports suggest the explosion targeted a military bus carrying at least 20 soldiers, leaving at least six dead and 17 injured.
The Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that a Renault 18 sedan, which was positioned near the bus, blew up. The bus' license plate number was 501516.
ANB reports that the owner of the Renault has been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing.
Tripoli has been a hotbed of strife since the May incidents, as there were ongoing battles between the Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood and Alawi parties in Jabal Mohsen.
The army has also been targeted in the northern city following its 15-week battle with Fatah al-Islam militants in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in the summer of 2007. Fatah al-Islam was badly beaten during the fighting, but it did not disband, and its members are thought to be behind the August 13 explosion in Tripoli near a bus filled with soldiers that left 14 people dead, nine of whom soldiers, and scores injured.
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