BEIRUT: An explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday was aimed at Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, some Lebanese media outlets, quoting Israel television, reported.

Quoting Israel’s Channel 10, the reports said Mustafa Mughniyeh, a member of Hezbollah’s “operations apparatus,” had left the building five minutes before the explosion went off.

It said one of his bodyguards was killed in the explosion.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday that one person had been seriously wounded when a gas cylinder blew up in the Rweiss neighborhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.

The NNA said the explosion reverberated across the southern suburbs, prompting ambulances and Civil Defense unites to rush to the scene of the incident.

Imad Mughniyeh, a top military commander in Hezbollah, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Syria in 2008.

According to Israeli reports, the building targeted was Mustapha Mughniyeh’s office and not his place of residence.