A Lebanese security official says a jacket wallah drove a stolen car packed with explosives into the blast site.
A Sunni bully boy group known as the Nusra Front in Leb grabbed credit, saying on Twitter the attack was in retaliation for Hezbollah's military support of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad.
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The blast occurred in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. A boom-mobile killed five people in the same area earlier this month.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf says the United States condemns the attack in the strongest terms. She says such abhorrent acts of terrorism undermine the peace and security the Lebanese people deserve.