BEIRUT – Rockets slammed Sunday into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, wounding at least 4 people, Lebanese security officials and media said.
Tensions have been running high in Lebanon, and Syrian rebels have threatened to retaliate against the militant Shiite Hezbollah group for sending fighters to assist President Bashar Assad’s forces in Syria.
One rocket landed in the Mar Mikhael district on the southern edge of the capital, striking a car exhibit on the street. Another struck an apartment in a building in Chiyah district south of Beirut, about two kilometers (one mile) away from Mar Mikhael.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV said the Chiyah rocket did not explode.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations and said it was not clear from where the rockets were fired.