Dozens killed and injured in four suicide bombings in Lebanon
At least six people were killed and 15 others injured in a terrorist attack on a Christian village in Lebanon. According to Lebanese sources, suicide bombers were responsible for the explosions. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions.
A series of explosions in eastern Lebanon killed at least six people on Monday morning. The AFP news agency reported that 15 others were injured in the blasts. The explosions occurred in the village of Al-Qa', a Christian area near the Syrian border. Some news agencies reported that 19 people were injured.
The Secretary General of the Lebanese Red Cross told AFP that at least four suicide bombers were responsible for Monday's explosions. According to Lebanese sources, four suicide bombers detonated their bombs 10 minutes apart.
[layerslider id=”10″]According to Lebanese military sources, one of the attackers wanted to detonate his bomb in a villager's house, but he failed to enter. After the first explosion and the gathering of the village residents, three other attackers blew themselves up among the crowd.
No group has yet officially claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings, but Al-Manar TV, which is close to Lebanon's Hezbollah, said Islamic State (IS) militants were responsible. Lebanese security sources said all four attackers were killed.
A Lebanese military official announced that three of the injured were Lebanese army soldiers.
Lebanon, the scene of Syrian hostile forces
In recent weeks, there have been explosions outside two banks in Beirut, but no one was killed. One of the explosions took place outside a bank that has frozen Hezbollah accounts.
Following Hezbollah's intervention in the Syrian civil war and support for the Bashar al-Assad regime, Lebanon has become a scene of conflict between Sunni and Shiite forces. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian citizens have fled to Lebanon.
Last year, two massive explosions in southern Beirut killed dozens and injured about 250. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both explosions.
