At least five people have been killed and 28 others wounded in two series of suicide bombings on a predominantly Christian village in northeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, officials said.
Four suicide bombers blew themselves up early on Monday in the village of Qaa in the Bekaa Valley, killing five people and wounding another 15, the state-run Lebanese News Agency reported.
In the evening, as family members gathered outside a church to mourn the morning’s victims, two men on a motorcycle threw a grenade at the group before detonating suicide vests, wounding another 13 people who were brought to hospital.
Qaa is a predominantly Christian village, located just a few kilometres off a border checkpoint.