BEIRUT, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Explosions heard in the southern town of Shehabiyye in Lebanon, a security source told Xinhua on Friday.
Witnesses in Shehabiyye confirmed to Xinhua that they had heard more than one explosion around 12:00 local time (9:00 GMT), and that it seemed the explosions occurred in an arms depot controlled by the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah.
Ambulances and firefighters have rushed to the scene.
The country's state-run National News Agency (NNA) confirmed later that an explosion occurred in a three-storey building that contains an arms depot.
The Lebanese Army was investigating the incident, it added.
Hezbollah, which owns sophisticated weapons and thousands of rockets, fought a devastating war against Israel in 2006.
Three children were injured when waiting for their school bus in an explosion in January in Kfarkila village in south Lebanon.
Last October, an ammunition explosion occurred at a Hezbollah official's residence in south Lebanon and left one injured. The explosion took place at a building owned by Hezbollah official Abd Nasser Issa in Teir-Falsieh near Tyre city, south of Litani River, within area of operations of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Israel has accused Hezbollah of stockpiling more than 50,000 rockets in southern Lebanon.
