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| Car bomb rocks south Beirut suburbs | |
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| A car bomb has injured dozens of people in a stronghold of Lebanon's Shia militant group Hezbollah in Beirut. | |
| A Red Cross official told the BBC 37 people had been hurt in the blast, in the Beir el-Abed area. | |
| TV pictures showed vehicles on fire and a cloud of black smoke. No group has said it was behind the attack. | |
| Rebels in neighbouring Syria have threatened to target Hezbollah, which intervened in the fighting there to support President Bashar al-Assad. | Rebels in neighbouring Syria have threatened to target Hezbollah, which intervened in the fighting there to support President Bashar al-Assad. |
| Two rockets hit south Beirut in May. | Two rockets hit south Beirut in May. |
| The explosion was caused by a car bomb in the car park of an Islamic centre, Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV said. | The explosion was caused by a car bomb in the car park of an Islamic centre, Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV said. |
| 'Message' | |
| Dramatic footage broadcast by the station showed firefighters trying to put out the flames. | Dramatic footage broadcast by the station showed firefighters trying to put out the flames. |
| "This is a message, but we will not bow," Hezbollah official Ziad Waked told al-Manar, AP reports. | |
| Hezbollah fighters were instrumental in Syrian government forces' strategic victory in Qusair in early June. | |
| A Hezbollah MP told the BBC that it was too early to speculate on who was responsible for the bomb. |