Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses and politicians blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally today to mark the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister.

Israel continued its bombardment of Beirut early today, while Hezbollah fighters repelled Israeli paratroopers trying to land in the southern city of Tyre, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television.

An Israeli missile hit farm workers loading vegetables into a refrigerator truck near the Lebanon-Syria border today, killing or wounding as many as 40 people, the workers’ foreman said.