Just a few days after several Arab embassies urged their citizens to leave Lebanon due to the tense security situation in the country, unknown perpetrators threw a bomb at the Swedish embassy in Beirut last night, Ednews reports citing Sweden Posts English.
"It was a Molotov cocktail-like bomb that was thrown at the embassy’s main entrance without exploding. Our bomb technicians removed it from the scene and we are working hard to locate the perpetrators", says a police source with access to Expressen.
The police assume that the failed attack may have something to do with the Quran burning in Sweden. After Iraqi citizen Salwan Momika burned the Quran and the Iraqi flag in Stockholm, it was condemned by several Muslim countries.
In Beirut, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on “young Muslims to defend the Quran and punish those behind it”. Nasrallah demanded that Lebanon expel Sweden’s ambassador in Beirut.