A car bomb, an apparent suicide attack, exploded in a southern suburb of Beirut populated mainly by Shiites, a security services source said early Tuesday.
The explosion happened around midnight local time on Tuesday (2100 GMT on Monday) near an army checkpoint and a cafe where football fans were watching a World Cup match.
"It was a car bomb and there is a strong possibility that it was a suicide attack," the security source told AFP.
There was no immediate word on any victims of the blast but ambulances could be seen transporting some of the wounded.
An AFP photographer saw several cars on fire at the scene and other damage.
Firefighters were tackling the blaze.
A witness told Lebanese television that he saw a white Mercedes car travelling fast on the wrong side of the road before exploding.
The car bombing came three days after a suicide attack in the east of the country which left one person dead and 30 wounded.
The area of south Beirut, a stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, has been the target of attacks for many months.
Most of these were claimed by Sunni extremists who blamed the Shiite movement for sending thousands of fighters into Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's regime in neighbouring Syria.
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