At least two people have been wounded after a roadside bomb ripped through a car near the Lebanese-Syrian border, officials say.
According to Lebanese security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the bomb hit the vehicle on a road linking Lebanon's capital Beirut to the Syrian capital Damascus near the Al Masnaa crossing point on Tuesday.

This comes after a powerful explosion rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut, leaving over 50 people injured.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement said Israel was behind the July 9 bombing in the Beirut suburb of Bir al-Abed.

“The blast is part of the ongoing targeting of the resistance, and the beneficiary of the blast is the system ... that serves the Israeli project,” Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem told al-Nour Radio Station on July 12.

Speaking on the anniversary of the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel, Sheikh Qassem held “Israel and groups working to incite [Sunni-Shia] strife” responsible for the massive bomb attack.

“Anyone who saw the size of the explosion knows that what happened was a real attack… which was part of a series that this hidden enemy wishes to carry out,” he said.

Qassem also criticized the Arab states, the Persian Gulf littoral states in particular, for their failure to condemn the attack.

Earlier, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati slammed the attack which he said was aimed at fomenting unrest in the country.

In January, two people were injured in a bomb explosion in the capital's suburb of al-Selloum. The bomb was planted underneath a car belonging to a Hezbollah member.

In December 2012, a car bomb attack in Beirut claimed the life of the intelligence chief of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan.

By Press TV

 

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