2 Car Bombs Kill 13 in Lebanon

BEIRUT — Two car bombs exploded in northern and eastern Lebanon today, killing 13 people and wounding 35 in a fresh challenge to Syria’s effort to maintain order, police said.

The first bomb, concealed in a red Fiat, exploded outside a supermarket in fashionable Azmi Street in the northern port city of Tripoli at 11 a.m. It killed 12 people and wounded 30, mostly women and children. A half-hour later, another person was killed and five were wounded when a bomb in a red Mercedes-Benz detonated at a parking lot in east Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek, police said. No group claimed responsibility for the blasts.