Police in the Dominican Republic are investigating the death of a German citizen in a shootout involving what they called a dangerous

doomsday

sect. Two German men and women were arrested in the northern seaside town of Sosua after gun battle with police on Wednesday. The Dominican Republic police seized rifles and grenades from the house and also found a body of a force member of the German group called the Academy for the Future of Health.

BBC News

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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

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The head of intelligence for Lebanon's national police and security forces has been killed in a huge car bomb explosion in Beirut. Wissam al-Hassan was among at least eight people killed by explosion in the heart of the mainly Christian Ashrafiya district. Mr. Hassan lead the investigation that implicated Syria, in the bombing that killed the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. Wyre Davies in Beirut has more.

黎巴嫩国民警察与安全部队情报部长在贝鲁特附近的大规模汽车爆炸案中丧生。这起爆炸案发生在以基督教为主的Ashrafiya社区，至少8人丧生，维萨姆·哈桑就是其中之一。哈桑负责调查2005年杀害前总理拉菲克·哈里里的爆炸案，这起案件与叙利亚有关。Wyre Davies在贝鲁特报道。

After a long period of relative calm, this is the first big bomb attack in the Lebanese capital in four years, but many had feared something like this would happen sooner or later, and that Lebanon would be inevitably dragged into the conflict in neighboring Syria. Some Lebanese political leaders have already accused the Assad regime in Syria of being behind the attack. The danger now is not only that there may be more attacks, but also the tensions will grow between Lebanon's many armed and political groups.