An attack on a bus in the Christian suburb of Beirut on April 13, 1975 helped spark the Lebanese civil war ... with the killing of Gemayel's bodyguard. The war unfolded quickly from there.

Habib Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, confessed to the killing of Mr Gemayel ... visit by a Lebanese head of government to Damascus since Syria's civil war erupted.