Twin blasts claimed by IS kill 41 in Beirut Hezbollah bastion

BEIRUT: Twin blasts claimed by the Islamic State group killed 41 people on a busy shopping street in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, in the worst such attack in years.

More than 200 peple were wounded, many of them seriously, said Health Minister Wael Abou Faour at the scene of the explosions, in a narrow shopping street in the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood.