AP pictures of bus blasts that killed at least twelve in Gemayel stronghold

Описание: (13 Feb 2007)
1. Wide of cordoned off road with damaged white bus and people around it
2. Mid of police cordon and soldiers next to destroyed white bus
3. White destroyed bus with side missing
4. Second blue destroyed mini bus
5. Various of crumpled destroyed blue minibus
7. Close up numberplate on destroyed blue minibus, pull out
8. Pan of wreckage
9. Officials gathered nearby
10. Wide of road, wreckage, scenery
11. Distressed women walking to scene
12. Bloodstain on ground
13. Destroyed white bus, soldiers
14. Close of cloth covered in blood
15. Destroyed white bus, paramedics, soldiers walking past
16. People inspecting remains of bus
17. Blood on ground
18. Close of seats on white bus
19. People inspecting remains of white bus
20. Blood in pool in cloth on ground
21. Wide of road with white bus and cordon, soldiers
STORYLINE
At least 12 people were killed in Lebanon on Tuesday morning when two explosions minutes apart tore through two buses travelling on a busy commuter highway near a mountain town northeast of Beirut.
Ten more were wounded, the country's state-run news agency said, but an exact casualty count was not yet available as the dead and wounded may have been taken to various hospitals.
Red Cross officials quoted by Future TV said there were three killed, and seven wounded.
A security official said a bomb first exploded in one bus, causing damage and casualties.
As people rushed to the scene, a second explosion ripped through a second bus that had driven up behind it, the official said.
Troops and police, using sniffer dogs, quickly sealed off the area and blocked the highway, a usually busy road linking Christian towns in the mountains with the capital.
Ambulances, sirens wailing, could be heard driving up the mountain road, about 30 minutes northeast of Beirut.
AP Television footage from the scene showed the crumpled wreckage of a white bus and a blue minibus, and debris scattered on the road.
The blasts occurred at approximately 9:15 am (07:15GMT) on a road in the village of Ein Alaq, just south of the town of Bikfaya in the province of northern Metn, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of the Lebanese capital.
Bikfaya is the ancestral home of the Gemayel family, a prominent political Christian family in Lebanon, one of whose members, Pierre Gemayel, a Cabinet member, was assassinated last November.
His father, former President Amin Gemayel, visited the White House and met President George Bush last week.
Appeals for urgent blood donations were broadcast as ambulances rushed casualties to hospitals in the region and in Beirut.
The explosions, in the Christian northern Metn region, came a day before pro-government factions prepared to mark the anniversary of the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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