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Sunni leader: Hezbollah taking Lebanon 'into Syrian fire'

Responding to Thursday's car bombing in Beirut and Hezbollah's response, former prime minister and leading Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri, accused Hezbollah of dragging Lebanon into Syria's war. 

's leading Sunni Muslim politician Ìý²¹³¦³¦³Ü²õ±ð»å Hezbollah on Saturday of dragging the country deeper into 's civil war after the  militant group's leader said he was ready to go to  himself to fight.

Hariri, a former prime minister, was responding to a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General  who said that a car bomb in Ìý²õ´Ç³Ü³Ù³ó±ð°ù²ÔÌý would only redouble the group's military support for Syrian President .

"(Nasrallah's) speech takes  into deeper involvement in the Syrian fire," Hariri tweeted. "It's a pity to squander the blood of the Lebanese in such a way."

The death toll from Thursday's car bomb, already the deadliest attack in  since the 1975-1990 civil war, rose to 27 on Saturday when the body of a six-year-old boy was found in the damaged ground floor of a nearby building.

Hariri's father , who also served as prime minister several times, was killed along with 21 others in a 2005 bombing. A U.N.-backed tribunal has indicted four Hezbollah members over the killing.

"What happened (on Thursday) was an ugly crime, but Hezbollah's war in  is crime as well," Hariri said, criticising Nasrallah for calling for restraint at home while reinforcing his commitment to the battle in  which has polarised  and sharply raised sectarian tensions.

Most Sunni Muslim Lebanese support the rebels battling to overthrow Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of  Islam. Many  Lebanese support Assad and Hezbollah's support in the neighbouring country has grown from a political to a full military role.

Hezbollah guerrillas led Assad's fight to recapture the Syrian border town of  in June from mainly Sunni rebels, and have also fought in the city of  and near the  shrine of Sayyida Zeinab south-east of.

Nasrallah said on Friday the Syrian war was a battle against radical Sunni "takfiri" groups, who he also blamed for Thursday's bomb.

Many Sunni jihadi fighters from  and other Arab countries have joined the fight against Assad, and some have threatened retaliation in  unless Hezbollah withdraws from .

The two-year conflict has killed 100,000 people inside  and the violence has spread across the Lebanese border, with rocket attacks in the Bekaa Valley, street fighting in the  cities of Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý, and bombs in .