Lebanon: 'Four Killed' in Beirut Car Bomb

At least four people have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing in a Shiite neighbourhood of Beirut, according to official state media.

The blast struck a busy commercial street in the Haret Hreik area in the south of the city. 

According to Red Cross communications director Ayad al Monzer four people died in the attack and 35 were injured.

The official National News Agency said it appeared to have been a suicide bombing.

"Body parts apparently belonging to a suicide bomber were at the scene," it reported.

Onlookers flocked to the site of Tuesday's blast, some offering assistance

It is the latest in a series of attacks in recent months targeting strongholds of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hizbollah. The attacks are thought to be in retaliation for the Iran-backed group's intervention on the side of President Bashar al Assad in neighbouring Syria.

Al Nusra Front in Lebanon has said it carried out Tuesday's bombing. The group is believed to be a franchise of the prominent al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front in Syria.

In a statement published on Twitter, the group said: "With the help of God almighty we have responded to the massacres carried out by the party of Iran (Hizbollah)... with a martyrdom operation in their backyard in the southern (Beirut) suburbs."

The blast is the third to hit Hizbollah strongholds in January alone.

On Thursday a car bomb struck the northeastern town of Hermel, killing three people and wounding more than 20. That attack was also claimed by the group.

On January 2 a car bomb struck metres away from Tuesday's attack, killing five. 

Attacks have also targeted Lebanon's Sunni community as sectarian tensions, stoked by Syria's civil war, run high.

In December, prominent Sunni politician Mohammed Chatah was killed in a car bomb in Beirut.

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