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On the morning of Sunday, October 23, 1983, a second suicide bomber struck the  Drakkar building, a few miles away, where the French contingent was stationed; 55 paratroopers from the 1.er Parachute Hunter Regiment and three paratroopers from the 9th Parachute Hunter Regiment were killed and 15 wounded.  The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor in the French building were also killed and more than twenty Lebanese civilians were wounded.