BEIRUT, Sept 25: A prominent Lebanese Christian television journalist was seriously wounded on Sunday as an explosion ripped apart her car, in the latest in a string of bomb attacks in Lebanon. May Chidiac, 40, a presenter of news and a political programme on LBC television, was wounded as a bomb exploded in her car in Jounieh, on the northern outskirts of Beirut, the private television station said.

“May’s condition is serious. She has had a hand and her left leg amputated,” it said, adding that she was being treated at Notre-Dame du Liban hospital.

The station said the bomb was placed under her car seat and the explosion occurred as Chidiac was driving out of a parking lot.

“The car was ripped apart by the blast which was followed by a fire,” it said.

Chidiac, a supporter of the anti-Syrian Lebanese Forces party, was the second journalist to be targeted by such a bomb attack. On June 2, Samir Kassir was blown up in his car outside his home in the Lebanese capital.—AFP