Rockets hit Beirut after Hezbollah vows Syria win

Two rockets hit a Shiite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday and wounded several people,residents said,a day after the leader of Lebanese Shiite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory.

Two rockets hit a Shi’ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday and wounded several people,residents said,a day after the leader of Lebanese Shiite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory.

It was the first attack to apparently target Hezbollahs stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in neighbouring Syria,which has sharply heightened Lebanons own sectarian tensions.

One rocket landed in a car sales yard next to a busy road junction in the Chiah neighbourhood and the other hit an apartment

several hundred metres away,wounding five people,residents said.

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A Lebanese security source said three rocket launchers were found,one of which had misfired or failed to launch,in hills to the southeast of the Lebanese capital,about 8 km from the area where the two rockets landed.

No group claimed responsibility for the rocket strikes.

The rocket strikes came hours after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,a powerful supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,said his fighters were committed to the conflict whatever the cost.

We will continue to the end of the road. We accept this responsibility and will accept all sacrifices and expected consequences of this position, he said in a televised speech on Saturday evening. We will be the ones who bring victory, he said.