Beirut, December 27: At least two people were killed late Saturday in a mysterious blast that shook southern Beirut, a security official said.
“At least two people have been killed and a number of others injured in an explosion in the southern suburbs” of Beirut, the official said.
“The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined,” the official added.
The two people killed were both Hamas members, a spokesman for the democratically-elected Palestinian movement told Al-Arabiya television on Sunday.
“The explosion in the southern suburbs resulted in the martyrdom of two members of Hamas and wounded three other people,” the spokesman, Ayman Taha, said.
He added that “the circumstances of the explosion are unclear and it is too early to name the party” responsible for it.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said that the blast was caused by bombs placed under the car of a possible Hamas member, while Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station said it occurred in a Hamas office.
—Agencies