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A string of suicide bombing attacks killed nine people, including four of the suicide bombers, and wounded 19 others in an attack on a Lebanese village at the border with Syria on Monday, Hezbollah's al-Manar reported.
Three Lebanese soldiers were among the wounded in the attacks on the village of Qaa, Voice of Lebanon radio reported. The bombers struck at 4 a.m. local time, the mayor of Qaa told Voice of Lebanon. All those killed were civilians, he said.
Al-Manar had earlier reported it was carried out by two suicide bombers, but later said there were more than two.
"The first attacker knocked on one of the homes in the village, but after the resident became suspicious, he blew himself up," a source with the Lebanese Army told Agence France Presse. "People began gathering at the site of the explosion and the three other suicide attackers blew themselves up," the source added.
The Lebanese Army said in a statement that the “first explosion took off at 4:20 am where a suicide bomber detonated himself close to one of the houses in the town. Three suicide explosions followed but at different interval in a street adjacent to the first.”
Lebanon has been repeatedly jolted by militant attacks linked to the five-year-long war in neighboring Syria, where the powerful Shi'ite resistance group Hezbollah is fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
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