Taxi driver found dead in car of natural causes

BEIRUT: A taxi driver found dead in his car Wednesday died of natural causes, security sources told The Daily Star.

Abdel Rahman Rifai, who was in his early seventies, was found sitting in his parked Mercedes near the Al Dunia gas station in the Beirut neighborhood of Tariq al-Jdideh. Rifai, who was known as Abu Deraa, was later determined to have died of a heart attack.