BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bomb kills one in Lebanese town

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bomb kills one in Lebanese town: "A bomb has hit a Christian industrial area to the north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing one person and injuring several others, police say.

The explosion caused a fire in a factory in Zouk Mosbeh, near the town of Jounieh, police said.

There have been several bombings in and around Beirut since Lebanese troops began battling militants in a Palestinian refugee camp on 20 May.

On Monday a bomb exploded on an empty bus in Beirut, injuring seven people.

A police source told AFP news agency that a car bomb hit a warehouse used to fill oxygen cylinders.

A Lebanese foreman was killed and three Syrian workers were injured, the police source said. Most other workers had left the area for the day.

Firefighters and police rushed to the scene of the explosion and cordoned off the area.

Lebanese television pictures showed a badly damaged building and several destroyed cars.

The fighting at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon, is the country's worst violence since the end of its civil war 17 years ago." Read complete post here.