Beirut bomb blast: the aftermath and the protests - in pictures

A car burns at the site of an explosion in Ashrafieh, east Beirut Photograph: Reuters

An injured woman is carried away from the scene of the explosion in the mostly Christian neighbourhood of Ashrafieh Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

A firefighter extinguishes flames at the scene of the explosion in Ashrafieh Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

A wounded woman is supported at the site of the blast in Ashafrieh Photograph: Reuters

Soldiers move people away from the site of the blast in Ashrafieh Photograph: Reuters

A Lebanese woman covers her nose as she walks through a road blocked by protesters and barricades in Beirut Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Lebanese Sunni gunmen drive through streets of Tripoli in protest against the assassination of intelligence chief General Wissam al-Hassan Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Lebanese security forces inspect the damage caused by a massive car bomb in Beirut's predominantly Christian district of Ashrafieh Photograph: Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images

Lebanese men chant slogans in Martyrs' Square during a protest against the killing of Wissam al-Hassan Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP

Workers clean glass near the scene of the explosion caused by a massive car bomb Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA

A Lebanese protester runs behind burning tyres as demonstrators block a road in the southern city of Sidon Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

Lebanese security forces inspecting the scene of the explosion Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA

A Lebanese woman holds a picture of the director general of the Lebanese internal security forces, General Ashraf Rifi, as protesters carry flowers during the march in the Ashrafieh Christian residential area a day after the car bomb attack in Beirut Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA

Boys push a cart through a road block of burning rubbish skips laid by Sunni protesters angry at the killing of Hassan Photograph: Ahmad Omar/AP

Lebanese women take part in a candlelit vigil near the site of the car bomb attack Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA