Senior security official, 7 others killed in Lebanon bombing

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The last serious bombing was in 2008, when a car bomb killed a senior Lebanese anti-terror police official who was investigating dozens of other bombings. Four others were killed and 38 wounded in the blast in the Christian Hazmieh neighborhood.

Since then, Lebanese saw a relative calm in violence. After the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, there have been sporadic gunbattles between pro- and anti-Assad factions, particularly in northern Lebanon.

"I’m very worried about the country after this explosion," Beirut resident Charbel Khadra said Friday. "I’m worried the explosions will return — and this is just the first one."

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