– An explosion was heard in eastern Beirut late on Sunday, a Reuters witness said.
BEIRUT (AFP) – A 63-year-old woman was killed and douzens of people wounded in an explosion late Sunday in the Christian quarter of Achrafie in Beirut, police and hospital sources told AFP. "A woman of 63, Leila Moqbel, died," following the explosion, a police officers from Lebanon’s interior security force (FSI) told AFP.Ten other people were wounded and taken to two hospitals in the district, said hospital sources.The incident came at the end of fierce fighting in northern Lebanon between the Lebanese army and a Palestinian Islamist group
"There was an explosive device either under a car or next to a car," the source said, adding it took place in the car park of a popular mall in a Christian district in east Beirut."There was a loud explosion here in east Beirut in Achrafieh next to Mar Mitr church and the ABC center, more exactly in an outdoor parking.. I can see a plume of smoke rising and people are going towards the area to see what happened," Reuters correspondent Tom Perry said.
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