Lebanese Bride & Groom Pose at Site Of Car Bomb That Killed 27 In Beirut (PICTURE) | HuffPost

Life Goes On: Lebanese Bride & Groom Pose At Fatal Car Bomb Site

Sara C Nelson — Huffington Post UK

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Draped in a frothy white wedding gown, this bride is like any other enjoying her big day.

And indeed it would be a typical marriage celebration, were it not for the broken glass and destroyed buildings that surround her and her cheering groom.

The pair were pictured with their wedding party in Beirut’s Rweiss neighbourhood, just three days after a car bomb killed at least 27 people.

The bride and groom pose for photographs in Beirut's Rweiss neighbourhood, days after a car bomb killed 27 people

The toll was the highest since a Beirut car bomb killed former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri and 22 others in February 2005.

Shia Hezbollah has blamed the bombing on radical Sunni Muslims.

It follows months of growing sectarian tension in Lebanon fuelled in part by Hezbollah’s intervention against Sunni Muslim rebels in Syria’s civil war, the Gulf Times writes.

Beirut Car Blast

(01 of11)

Flames rise from the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(02 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(03 of11)

Lebanese emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(04 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(05 of11)

Lebanese fire fighters extinguish a flame at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(06 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(07 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(08 of11)

Lebanese emergency personnel carry a hose to extinguish the fire at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(09 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(10 of11)

Lebanese civilians and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least six people and more than 100 wounded in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite movement Hezbollah, an army source and Lebanese Red Cross said. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

(11 of11)

Lebanese people gather at the site of a car bomb between the Bir el-Abed and Roueiss neighbourhoods, in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. A powerful car bomb killed at least three people and wounded several others in a Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, national news agency NNA reported. (AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

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