A suicide bomber drove an apparently explosives-laden vehicle into two vans carrying Hezbollah operatives in eastern Lebanon early Tuesday morning, causing a number of casualties, Lebanon\’s Daily Star quoted security sources as saying.
A 4X4 vehicle exploded in the Baalbek region, in the Bekaa Valley, some 2 kilometers from a "Hezbollah center," according to Lebanon\’s National News Agency.
The area was cordoned off and multiple ambulances were seen entering the area to deal with the casualties.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the incident.
Hezbollah has been increasingly subject to attacks in Lebanon as its involvement in Syria\’s conflict on the side of President Bashar Assad has caused tensions with Sunni groups.
In August, a car bomb killed 20 people in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Shi’ite terrorist group.