UPDATE, 0830 GMT: A late-night suicide car bombing killed a security officer and wounded 20 people outside a café near a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Beirut.
The sources said that DNA tests had confirmed that Abdul-Karim Hodroj, a General Security officer who was reported missing just after the blast, had been killed.
Most of those wounded in the cafe, which was showing the Brazil-Cameroon match in football’s World Cup, have left hospital.
The slain security officer, Abdul-Karim Hodroj, and a colleague intercepted the bomber’s car after he drove the wrong way down the street. The suspect blew himself up as Hodroj was holding him at gunpoint.
The Lebanese Army said the white Mercedes was rigged with 25 kilograms of explosive.
A bomb exploded near an army checkpoint in Beirut late Monday night.
The blast, reportedly by a suicide car bomber, was near the Tayouneh circle in the Lebanese capital. They said several people were wounded but there were no confirmed deaths apart from the bomber.
However, Lebanese TV channels are carrying claims of one to three people killed.
There were a series of bombs in south Beirut, in areas of Hezbollah strength, in summer and autumn 2013. Scores were killed in the blasts, including one near the Iranian Embassy.
The last significant blast in Beirut was in February, when five people were killed in a double suicide bombing near the Iranian Cultural Center.
On Friday, a suicide bombing at a police checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway killed a police officer and injured 33 people.
