The Times of Israel reports: A Hamas official whose brother is a leader in the organization was injured in a car bombing in Sidon, southern Lebanon, according to a spokesperson for the terror group.
Ayman Shanaa, a Hamas official in Lebanon, said Mohammad Hamdan was “injured lightly in the legs by a car bombing,” but a medical official source said his wounds were severe.
Hamdan was hit in “the explosion of a bomb placed under a BMW brand car,” a military source told AFP. The explosion occurred while he was opening the door of his vehicle. An AFP journalist in Sidon saw the burnt-out vehicle in a parking lot. A medical source at the scene told AFP that Hamdan had suffered serious wounds to his legs while opening the door to his car, and was taken to a hospital.
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