A senior police officer and at least five other people were killed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemned the car bombing on Friday in a Beirut suburb and said it was aimed at undermining Lebanese institutions.
A senior police officer and at least five other people were killed.
"We strongly condemn the terrorist bombing in Beirut today that killed a police captain and many other Lebanese. This bombing is an attack by those who seek to undermine Lebanon's institutions, the democratic process and to delay further the selection of a new Lebanese president," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
The explosion took place near an overpass on a busy road in a mainly Christian suburb.
!ADVERTISEMENT!Asked if the White House believed Syria might be involved, Perino said she didn't know.
"I couldn't put it past them but I couldn't say that for sure," she said.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey called the bombing a "terrible act of terrorism."
"We certainly don't have any sense of who is responsible for this, but it does appear yet again to be another attack on individuals who are part of the institutions and democratic structures in Lebanon," he said.
(Reporting by Caren Bohan and Paul Eckert; Editing by Patricia Wilson)
