DHAKA: Four people were killed in an apparent suicide car bombing in south Beirut on Tuesday, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting strongholds of Lebanon’s Shia movement Hezbollah.

The blast was quickly claimed by Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, a group believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm, which said it was a suicide attack.

‘Four people are dead, and there are 35 injured,’ Red Cross spokesman Ayad al-Monzer told media, reports The Straits Times.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency said the attack appeared to be a suicide bombing.

BDST: 1902 HRS, JAN 21, 2014