One person was killed and 28 wounded in a bombing in a Christian section of Beirut late last night, the latest in a string of blasts to hit the Lebanese capital this year.
Police identified the dead man as an elderly Lebanese of
Armenian origin and said three of the wounded remained in hospital.
The blast struck just before midnight (9pm Irish time) last night in a small side street in the Jeitawi quarter of east Beirut.
The force of the blast collapsed the roof of a cafe and damaged the facade of a neighbouring office block.
It was the 12th bomb attack in Lebanon since the February assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a massive car bombing on the Beirut seafront in which 20 other people also died.
Anti-Syrian activists have blamed Damascus for the attack.
