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Lebanon: 1 dead, 20 hurt in overnight Beirut blast

Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

By Associated Press 1 min read

BEIRUT (AP) – Lebanese officials and the state-run news agency say the overnight suicide bombing in a southern Beirut neighborhood killed a security officer and wounded 20 people.

The explosion occurred just after midnight on Monday near a checkpoint and a cafe in the Shatila area.

The state-run news agency said on Tuesday that security officer Abdul-Karim Hodroj was killed. It wasn’t clear if the checkpoint was the intended target of the attack.

The wounded included people who had gathered at a cafe to watch World Cup matches.

It was the second explosion in a week and comes amid mounting regional tensions over dramatic events in nearby Iraq, where the al-Qaida splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has seized large chunks of territory in the country’s north and west.