Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "At approximately 9:40am on 27 December 2013, a car bomb struck the convoy of Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese minister of finance and ambassador to the United States, in the Central District of Beirut, Lebanon. The bombing killed a total of eight people, among them Chatah, and injured seventy others. The bomb "was estimated to weigh more than 50 kilograms and was placed inside a stolen Honda car." The attack has been described as a political assassination of Chatah.No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Immediately after the attack, accusations materialized about who is responsible: from Syria and Hezbollah allies on one side to Saudi Arabia and Salafists on other side, while some claimed other party did it to stoke sectarian tensions by making it appear like Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah retaliation for earlier attacks. Leading members of the March 14 Alliance to which Chatah belonged held Hezbollah responsible for the assassination. Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri said, "Those who assassinated Mohamad Chatah are the ones who assassinated Rafik Hariri." March 14 Alliance also blamed Syria, but Damascus has rejected such accusations. Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said, "These wrong and arbitrary accusations are made in a context of political hatred".The attack initially killed six people, while two more subsequently succumbed to their wounds to bring the total death toll to eight."@en }
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- Assassination_of_Mohamad_Chatah abstract "At approximately 9:40am on 27 December 2013, a car bomb struck the convoy of Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese minister of finance and ambassador to the United States, in the Central District of Beirut, Lebanon. The bombing killed a total of eight people, among them Chatah, and injured seventy others. The bomb "was estimated to weigh more than 50 kilograms and was placed inside a stolen Honda car." The attack has been described as a political assassination of Chatah.No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Immediately after the attack, accusations materialized about who is responsible: from Syria and Hezbollah allies on one side to Saudi Arabia and Salafists on other side, while some claimed other party did it to stoke sectarian tensions by making it appear like Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah retaliation for earlier attacks. Leading members of the March 14 Alliance to which Chatah belonged held Hezbollah responsible for the assassination. Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri said, "Those who assassinated Mohamad Chatah are the ones who assassinated Rafik Hariri." March 14 Alliance also blamed Syria, but Damascus has rejected such accusations. Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said, "These wrong and arbitrary accusations are made in a context of political hatred".The attack initially killed six people, while two more subsequently succumbed to their wounds to bring the total death toll to eight.".