Two explosions have rocked the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least seven people.
One of the blasts happened near the al-Taqwa Mosque as Friday prayers were ending, initial reports say.
Emergency services have rushed to the scenes of the blasts which have left thick plumes of black smoke over the area.
It comes amid heightened sectarian tensions in Tripoli, aggravated by the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
The Al-Taqwa mosque is usually attended by Sheikh Salem Rafii, one of the most prominent Sunni leaders in Lebanon, BBC Arabic reports from Beirut.
Sheikh Rafii is a cleric opposed to Lebanon's militant Shia Hezbollah group. It was not clear whether he was at the mosque at the time of the attack. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Beirut says it is not clear what has happened to him.
The second explosion occurred about five minutes after the blast at al-Taqwa in the Mina district of Tripoli, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Tripoli, a city of nearly 200,000 people and Lebanon's second largest, is one of the country's most volatile sectarian faultlines, with a small Alawite community living in the midst of a Sunni majority.
The bombs come a week after a massive car bomb rocked a Shia district of Beirut, leaving 27 people dead.
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