An al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that rocked an army checkpoint in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa town of Hermel on Saturday, which killed three people and injured ten others, the LBCI TV reported.

Earlier, the report put the death toll of the bombing at two.

The Lebanese army confirmed the attack in a statement, saying the dead included "an officer, a soldier and a civilian."

The statement added that "a 4x4 car identified by the army as a stolen one and could be bobby-trapped tried to cross the checkpoint, and when the soldiers asked for the identification papers of the driver, he blew himself up."

On Saturday evening, "Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon," an al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The group said on Twitter that it will continue its suicide attacks against "the Iranian party in Lebanon, Hezbollah, until it withdraws from Syria and releases our brothers from the Syrian and Lebanese jails."

The group has previously claimed responsibility for several attacks against the heartland of Hezbollah in Hermel and in southern suburbs of capital Beirut.