A US Embassy car has been hit by an explosion which killed four people in Beirut, it is reported. The driver was slightly injured and his passenger unharmed when a car bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.It is thought the dead were local Lebanese people and no Americans were hurt. A security official said the blast happened in the predominantly Christian Dora-Karantina neighbourhood.
Local journalist Leena Saidi told Sky News the affects of the blast will "reverberate around the area". She said the car was travelling on a road which would have been crowded with rush-hour traffic. "In a way it's lucky more people didn't get killed or injured," she said.
Sky Foreign Affairs Editor Tim Marshall said suspicion would fall on al Qaeda or Hezbollah.
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