在大家為巴黎恐怖襲擊中的遇難者哀悼的時候，黎巴嫩還有這樣一位英雄父親，為挽救數百人的生命犧牲了自己。

在巴黎襲擊案的前一天晚上，黎巴嫩貝魯特也發生了一起ISIS的自殺爆炸案。爆炸發生在當地一個人口密集的購物區里。第一個襲擊者開著一輛裝滿炸藥的摩托車沖向人群中引爆。第一次爆炸發生，瞬間傷亡慘重。爆炸發生後，附近的人們紛紛趕來救援。

Adel Termos當時帶著女兒也在現場，他們目睹了第一次的爆炸。就在附近人群越圍越多的時候，出現了第二個自殺爆炸襲擊者。襲擊者渾身綁滿了炸藥，衝進了第一次爆炸現場附近的救援人群。

在那千鈞一髮之際，Adel猛衝上前，把一個綁滿炸藥正在沖向人群的自殺襲擊者按倒在距離人群一段距離之外。炸彈爆炸，上百人得救，他犧牲了。

最後，這兩次爆炸造成43人死亡，上百人受傷。如果不是他及時衝上前阻止第二個襲擊者沖向人群，傷亡數字可能還會高更多。他是Adel Tormos，他是兩個孩子的父親，他是拯救人群的英雄。

A father's split-second heroism saved countless lives in another terror attack, in Beirut

Beirut residents light candles during a vigil at the site of the two explosions that occurred on Thursday in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut,

Adel Termos, a Beirut resident out with his young daughter, witnessed a horrific bombing on Thursday. Then he made a split-second decision that saved countless lives.

As a second suicide bomber moved toward onlookers clustering at the scene of the explosion, Termos rushed the suspect.

"He tackled him to the ground, causing the second suicide bomber to detonate," says blogger and physician Elie Fares, who lives in Beirut. "There are many many families, hundreds of families probably, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice."

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that took an estimated 45 lives, including Termos. More than 200 people were wounded. It's not clear, however, whether the daughter died. Pictures posted recently seem to suggest she survived.

Fares says when similar bombings occurred in Beirut in years past, Lebanese were quick to view the events through the prism of sectarian politics.

"The street is still divided by political and sectarian lines, but this time around the sense is that these are people, period," Fares says. "They're dead because of something they had absolutely no role in ... They died because of some demented, twisted politics."

Fares says it would be wrong to call the victims martyrs.

"Calling them martyrs is a sort of Lebanese way to not only dehumanize them, it's to sort of make ourselves feel better that, yeah, it's okay, they died, but they're martyrs which means they're in heaven and they're in a better place," he says. "But the fact of the matter is it's just sort of a label to make ourselves feel better, and maybe their families feel better because the label of 'victim' means there's a sort of accountability to the process."

The two blasts hit during the evening rush hour, and devastated a commercial strip of southern Beirut.

Lebanon shares a border with Syria and hosts more than one million refugees from throughout the region.

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