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| Explosion 'rocks Beirut suburb' | Explosion 'rocks Beirut suburb' |
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| An explosion has hit a Hezbollah stronghold in a Shia-dominated southern suburb of Beirut, reports from Lebanon say. | An explosion has hit a Hezbollah stronghold in a Shia-dominated southern suburb of Beirut, reports from Lebanon say. |
| Hezbollah's al-Manar TV showed flames pouring from the facade of a multi-storey building, with large plumes of smoke. | Hezbollah's al-Manar TV showed flames pouring from the facade of a multi-storey building, with large plumes of smoke. |
| Two people were reported killed and 20 injured. | |
| There has been a spike in sectarian tension in Lebanon blamed on the conflict in neighbouring Syria. | There has been a spike in sectarian tension in Lebanon blamed on the conflict in neighbouring Syria. |
| Hezbollah forces have been fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, while Lebanese Sunni Muslims tend to back the Syrian opposition. | |
| Al-Manar said the blast occurred in Arid Street in Harat Hreik district. Large crowds could be seen gathering at the scene. | |
| It is the latest of several recent explosions in Lebanon. Five people were killed an many others injured by a bomb blast on 2 January in the same Beirut district. | |
| Former minister Mohamad Chatah, a Sunni and a critic of Hezbollah, was killed with five others by a car bomb in December. | |
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