22 May 1985
✸Beirut car bomb: 48 killed
Beirut & suburbs#Civil war
PartiesLebanese state (presidency, cabinet, parliament)Lebanese ForcesNational Movement / Left
On 22 May 1985 a car bomb exploded in a residential area of Beirut, killing 48 people, in a wave of tit-for-tat bombings between East and West Beirut that went on all summer.