On December 19, 1949,
Adib Shishakli carried out a
coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 30, 1950, al-Hinnawi was assassinated in
Beirut, the capital of
Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of
Muhsin al-Barazi, the Prime Minister who had been overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup. ==References==