LEBANON - Mar 27 - President Vows To End Unrest.

A day after a bombing wounds six people in Beirut, Pres Emile Lahoud pledges to do his utmost to end the violence that has gripped Lebanon since the assassination of former PM Hariri on Feb 14. Lahoud's comments came after he attended an Easter Mass in which Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, the spiritual leader of the Maronite Catholic Church, urged the president to work to rescue the country. The explosion late Mar 26 was the third bomb attack in a Christian neighbourhood in a week and the second in which Indian workers were among the victims. Two Indian workers and four Lebanese were wounded in the blast, an investigating judge said Mar 27, revising down an earlier report of two deaths. "Fortunately there were no deaths and only six injured, even though the explosive device was large", the investigating judge, Jean Fahd, told LBCI TV. The opposition has accused Syria of being behind the explosions. The attack raised tensions another notch in Lebanon, which has been gripped by political turmoil since the Feb 14 assassination of the former PM, Rafik Hariri, which opposition groups blame on Syria and pro-Damascus Lebanese authorities. Both deny such claims. The explosion occurred as political life remained deadlocked in a standoff between pro-Syrian authorities and an energised opposition determined to end Syria's near 30-year role as Lebanon's power broker once and for all. Opposition politicians again pointed a finger at the security services controlled by the government, accusing them of seeking to foment unrest as Syria withdraws its troops from the country. Some opposition MPs and outside observers have speculated that the recent spate of attacks is aimed at provoking instability in order to justify a continued Syrian military presence. Sfeir decried the latest violence in his Mass address. He said that the incidents appeared to be strongly pressuring everyone and were putting people "at a crossroad, which is either independence, sovereignty and freedom - and this is what most of the Lebanese want - or insecurity, unrest and trouble - and this is what some who don't want the good for Lebanon are warning about". Hariri's death galvanised a campaign to pressure Syria into withdrawing the estimated 14,000 troops it has stationed in Lebanon. As a result, the Syrian Pres Bashar Al Assad, has begun calling home his troops, 4,000 of whom have already returned to Syria, in accordance with a resolution passed by the UN Security Council last year. The Lebanese authorities on Mar 26 acceded to another key opposition demand by agreeing to an international commission of inquiry into Hariri's killing.