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A CAR bomb in Damascus has killed a senior commander of the resistance movement of Hezbollah, an informed source says. A Hezbollah official said on Wednesday that one of the group's top commanders, Imad Mugniyah, had been killed in Syria and blamed the Zionist regime for the murder.
"He has been a target of the Zionists for 20 years," a statement from Hezbollah said.
A vehicle was blown up in a car park in the newly-completed Damascus residential neighborhood of Kfar Suseh at around 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Tuesday, witnesses said.
Witnesses had seen the body of a man taken from the scene of the blast which was cordoned off by Syrian security officials.
The Lebanese TV network LBC reported that Mugniyah, aka Hajj Radwan, attended a ceremony held at the Iranian school in Damascus, before he was murdered.
The windows of nearby buildings were blown in and four parked cars were damaged.
A funeral procession is to be held for the slain Hezbollah official in Beirut on Thursday, on the same day that the pro-government March 14 bloc is planning to stage rallies to commemorate the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Hezbollah forces have been put on high alert in southern Lebanon, informed sources told the Press TV correspondent in Lebanon.
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