Beirut, Lebanon ? An explosion tore through a business center in a Christian town near Beirut early today, killing at least two people in the second deadly attack against an anti-Syrian stronghold since the murder of Lebanon’s former prime minister last month.

The political turmoil touched off by the assassination of Rafik Hariri continued Tuesday as about 1,000 students shouting “Death to America!” and shredding a portrait of President Bush marched on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to criticize what they said was Washington’s interference in Lebanon.

Separately, a newspaper owned by the slain former premier, Rafik Hariri, said a U.N. team investigating his Feb. 14 assassination is expected to accuse Lebanese authorities of negligence and evidence tampering.

Hariri was an opponent of the 15-year Syrian occupation of Lebanon, and his assassination set off demands that Syria pull its troops out as demanded by a U.N. Security Council resolution and the United States.

Syria and its Lebanese allies in government denied opposition accusations of having roles in Hariri’s assassination. The killing brought Syria’s long domination of Lebanon into the spotlight. Syria’s military, which entered the country in 1976 during the 1975-90 civil war, made Damascus the power broker of Lebanese politics.

The latest attacks have raised concerns among some Lebanese that pro-Syrian elements might resort to violence to show, in their view, the need for a continued presence by Damascus forces.

Shortly after midnight, a 45-pound bomb rocked the shopping center near Jounieh, the main Christian port city about 10 miles north of Beirut. Police said they believed it was placed at the center when it was closed.

Lebanese Red Cross and civil defense staff carry a dead body at the Alta Vista Shopping Center on the Kaslik stretch near Jounieh, the main Christian port city about 10 miles north of Beirut, Lebanon. An explosion devastated a business center on a commercial street in Lebanon's Christian heartland, a stronghold of the anti-Syrian opposition, early today, police said.

Police said two people were killed and two wounded. LBC TV, the leading station in the country, said three people were killed and eight wounded. It was the second bombing since Saturday, when a car bomb in a northern Christian suburb of Beirut injured nine people.

The demonstrators on Tuesday, mostly supporters of the militant group Hezbollah, shouted “Death to Israel!” and waved Lebanese flags as they tried to push through barbed wire and a Lebanese army checkpoint.