At least 27 people are reported to have been killed and more than 350 injured in two bomb blasts in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, according to the country’s health minister.
Car bombs were detonated almost simultaneously outside two mosques after Friday prayers.
"I see seven bodies inside several burned cars," said one eyewitness, speaking from near the Taqwa mosque, which is frequented by Sunni Islamist hardliners, where the first blast occurred.
A security source told Reuters that a number of people were killed in the second blast outside al-Salam mosque.
The explosions came a week after a huge blast killed at least 24 people in a southern suburb of Beirut, a Shi’ite Hezbollah militant group stronghold.
Sectarian tension in Lebanon is being stoked by the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Many of Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslims support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is fighting a largely Sunni insurgency against his rule.
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