Reuters

A blast on August 31st,  which
killed one person in Lebanon last week targeted a convoy of cars
belonging to the Hezbollah-allied Amal party, parliament speaker and
Amal party head Nabih Berri told al Akhbar newspaper.

No
group claimed responsibility for the bomb blast on a road near the city
of Zahle, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Wednesday which also wounded 11
others.

Berri, a Shi’ite
politician, Hezbollah ally and one of most powerful men in the country,
said the explosion targeted Amal vehicles heading to an event in south
Lebanon commemorating former Amal party leader Musa Sadr, who
disappeared in Libya in 1978.

“The
explosion was a message to us, it was intended to obstruct the arrival
of those from the Bekaa to the movement’s event in Tyre,” Berri told the
Lebanese newspaper.

Amal party sources told the paper that they do not know who carried out the attack, but it was clear who the target was.

Since
the eruption of the five-year-old war in neighboring Syria, where the
powerful Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah is fighting in support
of President Bashar al-Assad against Sunni Muslim rebel groups, Sunni
militants have repeatedly struck in Lebanon.

The
spillover has included a number of attacks on Shi’ite areas, among the
biggest of which was a bomb attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut in
November last year.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Dominic Evans)