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Spate of rock-throwing attacks adds to security fears in Beirut

The images are stark: a car's front windscreen smashed, with a rock bigger than a football lying on the front seat. The attack that killed Muhammad Hamza while he was driving on Beirut 's airport road – where an assailant hurled the rock from a bridge – is the most notorious of a spate of such incidents in Lebanon 's capital.

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