Lebanon suicide attack hits village near Syria border

At least five people have been killed and 13 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a village in eastern Lebanon, reports say.

Three bombers blew themselves up in the village of Qaa, close to the Syrian border, the Lebanese Red Cross told AFP news agency.

The Hezbollah TV station al-Manar put the death toll at six. It is not clear who carried out the attack or why.
Sectarian tensions in Lebanon have been stoked by the civil war in Syria