An explosion rocked a shopping center in a neighborhood in northern Beirut. Residents of the Zalka area said black smoke was rising near a hotel.
Ambulances and fire engines headed to the area.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded in a Christian area north of Beirut on Monday, wounding at least two people, a Lebanese security source
said.
The bomb exploded in the car park of a hotel in the Zalka area outside the capital, the source said.
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A series of bombings has hit Lebanon since the February assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Several people are reported to have been injured in the powerful explosion which could be heard kilometres away.
There have been differing reports about the precise location of the blast, with witnesses variously saying it took place outside a hotel or a shopping
centre