Lebanese man sentenced to death in 2013 mosque bombing
BEIRUT – A Lebanese court has sentenced a man to death for twin car bombings in 2013 that targeted two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 47 people, state-run National News agency reported Friday.
NNA said the Judicial Council sentenced Youssef Diab to death on Friday.
NNA gave no further details regarding the sentence over the near-simultaneous bombings that targeted Sunni mosques in Lebanon’s second largest city. Police said at the time that the bombings wounded some 300 others.
The co-ordinated bombings in the predominantly Sunni city came amid sectarian violence in Lebanon at the time that spilled over from neighbouring war-torn Syria.
According to the indictment released years ago, Diab detonated one of the bombs remotely.
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