AhlulBayt News Agency: Head of the Supreme Shiite Council, Imam Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan, passed away on Saturday at the age of 85.
House Speaker Nabih Berri visited Al-Zahraa hospital, where the late scholar was being treated before he died, and offered condolences to his family.
Later on, Speaker Berri issued a statement in which he mourned Sheikh Qabalan as a minaret of faith, offering condolences to Imam Sayyed Moussa Sadr and all the scholars as well as all the Lebanese on his demise.
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