Car bomb hits Lebanon as Hariri trial opens, three dead A likely suicide car bomb on Thursday ripped through the main square of Hermel, a Hezbollah bastion in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, killing three people in the latest attack linked to Syria's war. The army cordoned off the affected buildings as investigations were launched. The bombing came as the trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members accused of murdering Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 got underway Thursday at a UN-backed court in the Netherlands. Images