An explosion devastated a business centre in Lebanon’s Christian heartland early today, a stronghold of the anti-Syrian opposition, killing two people and wounding two more.

Lebanese Tourism Minister Farid Khazen quit today following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, saying the government was not capable of running the country at this crucial period.

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in the massive bomb explosion that ravaged his motorcade on Beirut’s famed seafront corniche today, a Cabinet minister said.