An explosion killed a local official in northern Bekaa Valley region on Wednesday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said.
The attack took place in the morning in the town of al-Ain, some 20 km (13 miles) west of the Lebanese-Syrian border, and killed the town's deputy mayor Khaled Houry, and injured Mouhmoud Houry, NNA reported.
A security source, who described it as an assassination, said a bomb exploded inside the local official's van, killing him and severely injuring his brother.