He said at least five nearby buildings were damaged and many cars in the area were destroyed. The blast sent a column of black smoke over the densely populated area in the south of the Lebanese capital.
The explosion came a month after a huge car bomb wounded 53 people in the same district, a stronghold of Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces in Syria’s civil war.
Several minutes after Thursday’s blast, live television footage showed fires still burning in the street where the explosion took place. The facades of neighboring residential buildings were also badly damaged.
Al-Mayadeen television said some people were still trapped inside buildings at the scene, close to the Sayyed Al-Shuhadaa (Martyrs) complex, where Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah often addresses his followers.
Sectarian tensions have been high in Lebanon following the intervention of Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah in support of Assad against a two-year revolt led by Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority. Hezbollah also fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006.
Israel is not fully happy with stability in Lebanon. Zionist hidden hand had succeed to make chaos in Syria and Egypt. Only Lebanon is still intact and very hard to be interfered. This situation is endangering Israel.Incite enemy of hizbollah to organise a car bomb is the Only way to destabilise Lebanon. Off course hizbollah itself was the target.