Al-Qaeda-affiliated l-Nusra Front terrorist group claimed on Monday responsibility for the suicide attack which rocked the Choueifat region in the south eastern part of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Al-Qaeda-affiliated l-Nusra Front terrorist group claimed on Monday responsibility for the suicide attack which rocked the Choueifat region in the south eastern part of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Internet websites circulated Al-Nusra 7th statement without being posted on the terrorist group's official account on Twitter.

The statement said that the operation which targeted a passengers bus was detonated in front of one of Hezbollah checkpoints and killed all the "Shiite" passengers in addition to "more than ten" Hezbollah members who were at the checkpoint.

However, contrary to the posted statement, the suicide bomber blew himself up in a bus passenger near a Lebanese army check point and facing a gas station. The attack killed no one but left three citizens injured including the bus driver.

The blast was the eighth of its kind targeting the civil peace in Lebanon, following four terrorist attacks targeting Beirut's southern suburb (Dahiyeh), one targeting the Iranian embassy in Beir Hasan, and another two hitting the eastern town of Hermel.