A bomb exploded outside an alcohol outlet in the southern Lebanon town of Sarafand on Thursday, destroying the building and damaging four neighbouring shops, a security official said.
The attack marked the latest in a spate of blasts targeting alcohol-friendly establishments in Lebanon's religiously conservative south.
The bomb, which exploded at dawn, caused no casualties, the official said.
Sarafand, a majority Shiite town, lies between the major cities of Sidon and Tyre, where bomb attacks in the past few weeks have targeted liquor outlets and restaurants serving alcohol.
"It's a terrorist act. They want to drive us out the country," Ahmad Ali Hamdane, the distraught owner of the store flattened in Thursday's blast said, without identifying those he believed responsible.
"I opened the shop 17 years ago and I have never had problems with anyone," he told AFP.
A string of liquor stores have been forced to close in the face of a prohibition campaign in the country's south despite alcohol being widely available in Lebanon, considered the most liberal country in the Arab world.
Alcohol is banned, however, in areas under the control of the militant Shiite group Hezbollah and in conservative Sunni regions.
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