French embassy bombing in Beirut | |
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Location | Embassy of France, Beirut, Lebanon |
Date | 24 May 1982 8:10 a.m. |
Attack type | Car bomb |
Deaths | 11 |
Injured | 27 |
A car bomb exploded inside the French embassy compound in Beirut on the morning of 24 May 1982. It killed ten Lebanese people and two French people; it wounded 27 other people.[1][2]