Dozens Injured In South Beirut Explosion

A car bomb at a shopping centre in southern Beirut has injured 37 people, according to security officials in the city.

Southern Beirut is a stronghold for the Lebanese pro-Syrian Shiite Hizbollah militant group.

The group said the blast, in the Beir el Abed area, was caused by a car bomb in the parking area of the shopping centre.

Earlier reports of several deaths have not yet been confirmed.

The explosion was close to Hizbollah's 'security square' where many of the party's officials live and have offices.

Two men at the scene of the blast

The group's Al Manar TV station broadcast pictures of black smoke rising into the sky and people rushing to help the wounded.

Hizbollah members, some of them carrying Kalashnikov rifles, cordoned off the site with yellow ribbons.

Around 100 supporters of the group marched in the area after the blast, shouting slogans in support of Hizbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

"The Shiite blood is boiling," Hizbollah supporters shouted.

Tensions have been high following the intervention of Hizbollah fighters in the Syrian war where Sunni Muslim rebels are trying to topple President Bashar al Assad.

Hizbollah fighters gave vital help when Syrian government forces regained control of the strategic town of Qusair, close to the Lebanese border.

Some Syrian rebel groups, which are mainly made up of Sunni Muslims, have threatened to strike in Lebanon.

In May, two rockets hit southern Beirut and injured four people.

That attack came hours after Sheik Hassan Nasrallah promised to help the Syrian regime defeat rebel forces.

Hizbollah, much like the Syrian regime, accuses Syrian rebels of being agents of the US and Israel.

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