A suicide blast has targeted a
checkpoint manned by the Shia Hezbollah group in eastern Lebanon,
killing three people, state media says.
The attacker detonated explosives in his vehicle just outside the village of Khraibeh, in the Bekaa Valley.
It is not clear whether the fatalities were Hezbollah fighters or civilians.
It comes amid heightened sectarian tensions in Lebanon as a result of the spill over from the three-year conflict in neighbouring Syria.
It is not yet clear who was behind Saturday’s attack, which took place some three miles away from the Syrian border.
Sunni militants have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in the past over the group’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his battle against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.
‘Soldier executed’
A security official quoted by Reuters said “the Hezbollah fighters at the checkpoint were all killed,” with several others who were nearby wounded.
But Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV has denied that any of its fighters were killed in the blast.
The attacker detonated explosives in his vehicle just outside the village of Khraibeh, in the Bekaa Valley.
It is not clear whether the fatalities were Hezbollah fighters or civilians.
It comes amid heightened sectarian tensions in Lebanon as a result of the spill over from the three-year conflict in neighbouring Syria.
It is not yet clear who was behind Saturday’s attack, which took place some three miles away from the Syrian border.
Sunni militants have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in the past over the group’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his battle against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.
‘Soldier executed’
A security official quoted by Reuters said “the Hezbollah fighters at the checkpoint were all killed,” with several others who were nearby wounded.
But Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV has denied that any of its fighters were killed in the blast.
