BEIRUT, Lebanon - Family, colleagues and supporters marched Friday in a mass funeral procession for a slain Lebanese lawmaker, the latest victim of a campaign the country's anti-Syrian faction accuses Damascus of orchestrating to scuttle the upcoming presidential election.
A brass band played the anthem of killed lawmaker Antoine Ghanem's political party as hundreds of mourners carried flags while they walked down a packed street in a Beirut neighborhood.
Women ululated with their tongues as Ghanem's coffin, draped in the Lebanese and Phalange Party flags, and the caskets of his driver and bodyguard, who also were killed in Wednesday's bomb blast, were held above people's …
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