100 security impossible: Lebanon

(MENAFN- Arab News) BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an emergency meeting with his security Cabinet and military chiefs on Friday as the nation mourned 44 people killed in a double suicide bombing claimed by Daesh.
The blasts late on Thursday hit a residential and commercial area in a southern suburb of Beirut a stronghold of Hezbollah in the latest spillover of violence from the war in neighboring Syria.
Medical sources raised the death toll on Friday from 43 to 44 with more than 200 people wounded.
Funerals were held in Beirut for several of the victims later in the day with coffins draped in the flags of Hezbollah and Amal another Shiite movement.
Defense Minister Samir Moqbel said the armed forces were on high alert across the country and trying their best to keep a fragile calm.
'To tell you the security forces can control things like that 100 percent of the time I'd be lying' he said.
'We're doing our best in coordination with all the parties on the ground.'
Beirut residents expressed concern after the violence saying it raised the spectre of civil strife.
'It's been a year... with no explosions. We thought we were done with this but were proved wrong yesterday' said central Beirut resident Rajaa who gave only her first name.
'This explosion targeted Lebanon as whole not only Beirut's southern suburbs' she said.
Hezbollah warned on Thursday of a 'long war' against its enemies.