Lebanese firemen extinguish a fire in a burning building caused by an explosion on Verdun street in west Beirut May 21, 2007. A car bomb rocked Beirut's Sunni neighborhood of Verdun on Monday night and caused fire in a nearby building, one day after a bomb blasted in central Beirut's Christian neighborhood of Achrafye.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

BEIRUT, May 21 (Xinhua)-- A car bomb rocked Beirut's Sunni neighborhood of Verdun on Monday night and caused fire in a nearby building, one day after a bomb blasted in central Beirut's Christian neighborhood of Achrafye.

    The explosion happened at around 11:00 p.m. local time (2000 GMT). Splinters of the car and broken glasses from shattered windows were scattered everywhere within 100 meters of the blast.

    The blast also caused fire in one floor of a nearby resident building. Fire and smoke were seen billowing from the windows.

    At least 10 people were reportedly injured in the blast. Ambulances and fire engines soon arrived, putting out the fire before the police cordon off the scene.

    The blast, happened one day after a similar incident in the city's Christian neighborhood of Achrafye, which killed one woman and wounded 12 others, and coincided with a two-day clash between the Lebanese army and the Fatah al-Islam faction in a Palestinian refugee camp in northernLebanon, aroused concernfor the country's stability.