By Xinhua
Washington : The United States said on Wednesday that preliminary investigation indicates that the U.S. embassy car, which was damaged in a bomb explosion on Tuesday in Beirut, Lebanon, was likely the target of the terror attack.
Although no definitive conclusions have been made about the bombing, “preliminary evidence would indicate that it (the car) was targeted,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut has taken “appropriate security precautions” before agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation start to join the investigation, McCormack said.
Four Beirut residents were killed while an embassy employee was slightly injured in Tuesday’s bomb attack, according to the spokesman.
The last three years have witnessed a series of bomb blasts in Lebanon. The most recent one occurred on Jan. 8, when a U.N. peacekeeping vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb south of Beirut, leaving two Irish peacekeepers injured.