Nine reported dead in Lebanon bus blasts

Arab television channels including the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera have reported that as many as nine people were killed in today's explosions on buses in Lebanon.

There has been no official confirmation of the death toll.

Explosions targeted two buses travelling near a mountain town north-east of Beirut earlier today.

The explosions took place in the town of Ein Alaq near the town of Bikfaya, the ancestral home of the Gemayal family, a prominent political Christian family in Lebanon.