Hezbollah supporters attacks Lebanese interior minister with stones

Hezbollah operatives fired in the air to disperse people who attacked the interior minister with stones after he inspected the scene of the blast which rocked a stronghold of the Shia militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, trapping him for 45 minutes in a building before he was escorted through a backdoor according the CBC new.

 Minister Marwan Charbel is seen by some Shias as sympathetic to hardline Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir, who was agitating against Hezbollah for months and is now on the run.

A car bomb rocked a stronghold of the Shia militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, wounding at least 53 people and setting several cars ablaze in the most serious knock-on effect from Syria's civil war on its smaller neighbor since the Syrian crisis began, officials said.

The powerful blast in a bustling commercial and residential neighborhood came as many Lebanese Shias began observing the holy month of Ramadan, and is the worst explosion to hit the area in years — likely direct fallout of the civil war raging in neighboring Syria.