BEIRUT – A suicide car bomber killed three people at a checkpoint manned by the Shiite Hezbollah militia in eastern Lebanon Saturday evening, the state-run news agency reported, in another sign that the war in Syria is spilling over into its eastern neighbor.
The bomber detonated his explosives-rigged vehicle at the checkpoint about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the Syria border near the town of Khreibeh, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the casualties were bystanders or Hezbollah fighters.
The last such suicide car bombing occurred in February. Since July 2013, dozens of people have been killed in more than a dozen suicide car bombings that have rocked the country.
The Saturday attack was likely linked to the war in Syria, as were the previous bombings.