Dearborn residents among dead in twin bombings in Lebanon

According to Red cross, at least 239 people were also wounded, majority in critical condition, the blast which occurred a busy shopping street in the Burj al-Barajneh neighbourhood.

Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters across the border to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari also denounced the bombings on Thursday, expressing hope that the Lebanese people, the resistance movement Hezbollah and the army will stand united against terrorism.

Earlier, on 23 August 2013, 47 people lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Lebanon when two two auto bombs exploded outside Shiite mosques at Tripoli.

The official version of events differs slightly, with a Lebanese security source saying the first attacker set off his explosives vest outside the community centre, while the second detonated his explosive inside the bakery.

The claim could not be independently verified but it followed the usual format of IS claims of responsibility and was circulated on jihadist online accounts.

One of the suicide bombers blew himself up at the gates of a school, according to the Lebanese minister of education, Elias Bou Saab.

The extremist Islamic State group claimed the attack on the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam declared Friday a day of mourning after holding an urgent meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri. A third suicide bomber reportedly failed to carry out his act of jihad; killed by the second bomb blast before he could self-detonate.

The attack came as Hezbollah steps up its involvement in the Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year.

“He trusts they will not allow this despicable act to destroy the relative calm that has prevailed in the country over the past year”.

The Lebanese military, however, is relatively small and not particularly battle-hardened, which means that Hezbollah will likely be continuing to do the heavy fighting against ISIS.