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On Twitter, Videos and Photos of the Aftermath of the Beirut Bombing

A video by Hasan Shabaan from the scene of the bombing in central Beirut published by The Daily Star in Lebanon.

As our correspondent Anne Barnard reports from Beirut, a large bomb exploded in a mostly Christian area in the central part of the city, killing at least eight people and wounding many others, according to witnesses and civil defense officials in Lebanon.

Panic spread across the city as the bombing and neighboring conflict in Syria reminded people of sectarian violence from Lebanon's civil war. It is not yet confirmed if a political figure or a group was the target of the blast or connected to the growing violence in Syria.

Yorgo El-Bittar, a Lebanese journalist, was one of the first people at the scene and shared updates and photos on Twitter.

A reporter on the scene for Al Jazeera said in this video that the blast was so large that it might not have been a car bomb.

< div class="w480">A news report from Al Jazeera on the Friday bombing in Beirut.