A bomb which exploded in Beirut on Saturday killed two Hamas members, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist group in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday.
Lebanese security sources described the target of the explosion as a car used by Hamas members but gave conflicting accounts of casualties in the blast, which rocked a stronghold of the Hezbollah militant group in the southern Beirut suburbs.
Ayman Taha, a spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, said there were two dead. He identified them as Basel Goma and Hassan Haddad, both faction members.
He gave no further details on Goma and Haddad's duties and declined to accuse anyone in their killing. Arab officials have blamed past such attacks on Israel.
"We have launched an investigation and we will publish the results once completed," Taha said, adding that he had been in touch with exiled Hamas leaders in Lebanon and Syria.
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