At least four people were killed and more than 10 wounded in an explosion in a Christian town east of Beirut on Wednesday, security sources said.
The sources said the blast in Baabda, the site of Lebanon’s presidential palace on the outskirts of the capital, was caused by an explosive device.
On Monday, Lebanon’s Parliament speaker postponed a presidential election to December 17, the eighth delay of a vote repeatedly put off over differences between the anti-Syrian governing coalition and the opposition backed by Damascus.
The feuding camps agreed last week on General Michel Suleiman, a Maronite Christian, as a consensus candidate for the post, which has been vacant since Novemer 24 after the term of Emile Lahoud ended.
Electing Suleiman would ease Lebanon’s worst political crisis since the 1975 to 1990 civil war. His nomination followed intense French-led mediation to resolve the crisis.
Arab and Western states have expressed concern that a prolonged vacuum in the presidency could further destabilise Lebanon, which has seen deadly sectarian clashes this year. – Reuters