AN EXPLOSION targeted a US embassy vehicle yesterday in northern Beirut, killing at least three Lebanese and injuring an American bystander and a local embassy employee, US and Lebanese officials said.

Police and army troops in Lebanon sealed off downtown Beirut today as the parliament tried to meet to elect a new head of state.

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.

A bomb targeting the motorcade of Lebanon’s most prominent politician killed at least nine people on Beirut’s famed seafront boulevard today.