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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - At least 23 were killed, including an Iranian cultural attache, from a twin blasts on the Iranian embassy in Beirut. Al Arabiya's correspondent reported that there were two-minute interval between both blasts that rocked the area.
Footage from security cameras showed a man rushing towards the outer wall of the Iranian embassy in Beirut before blowing himself up. The Lebanese army later added that the second explosion soon followed.
The Lebanese health minister stated that at least 146 people have been injured. "Most of the casualties are civilians," said Al Arabiya correspondent in Beirut, Adnan Ghamloush.
Local media broadcasted live images of smoke billowing from the embassy building. Harrowing pictures of wounded people being carried from the ground zero were also in the broadcast.
The twin blasts occurred in an area considered as a stronghold of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which is a main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war next door. It is not clear if the blasts are related to the Syrian civil war.
AL ARABIYA | CHOIRUL