Monday, December 12 2005 15:51 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Beirut: Anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni was killed today (Dec 12, 2005) in an explosion that targeted his convoy, according to two Lebanese TV stations that are allied with him.

Police did not immediately confirm. LBC and Future TV said Tueni was killed in the bombing that killed two other people in an industrial suburb of Beirut.

Police gave no immediate word on casualties, but an AP photographer saw three mutilated bodies after the explosion. At least 10 cars were destroyed, some tossed into a valley in the hilly Christian Mkalles area on Beirut's eastern entrance.

LBC TV and Future TV station, which is owned by the Hariri family, said a car bomb had been detonated, but police did not immediately say whether the bomb was placed in a car or next to a vehicle.