Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani stressed on Friday that Shiites in the country have no links to the deadly bombings in the northern city of Tripoli.

"Muslims must know that the blast in the southern suburbs of Beirut was not executed by Sunnis and today's bombings in Tripoli were not orchestrated by Shiites,” Qabbani said in a televised speech.

Kuwait on Friday urged its citizens to “immediately” leave Lebanon, lamenting the recurrence of blasts in the country.

"We call on all Kuwaitis present in Lebanon to immediately leave the country,” an official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a released statement.

Caretaker Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn on Friday noted that the deadly twin blasts that targeted the northern city of Tripoli were aimed at “inciting strife among all the Lebanese,” warning of a “a series of terrorist car bombings.”

"Let us close ranks as only national unity can act as a bulwark in the face of what's happening. We are at a very dangerous crossroads and let's put our disputes aside,” Ghosn said in a phone interview with LBCI television.

President Michel Suleiman called for “national solidarity to prevent the enemies of stability in Lebanon from reaching their goals."

"It's another episode of a terrorist plan targeting the country,” Suleiman said in a released statement in which he condemned the “massacre” in the northern city of Tripoli.

Syria on Friday condemned the “coward terrorist” bombings that hit the northern city of Tripoli.

"We strongly condemn the terrorist act that targeted our people in Tripoli,” a statement released by the neighboring country's Ministry of Information said.

Former Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said the deadly twin bombings that hit Tripoli on Friday are “a chance for us, as Lebanese, to shoulder our responsibilities in protecting our people, whether in Dahieh, Tripoli or anywhere else.”

“I had warned all officials seven months ago that Lebanon had entered the storm, and unfortunately every party engaged in a scheme until things reached this extent,” Rifi said in a phone interview with LBCI television.

Speaker Nabih Berri stated on Friday that “the same terrorist and criminal hands” attacked the northern city of Tripoli days after “they” killed dozens of people in Beirut's southern suburbs.

"Tripoli's twin blasts are the work of the same killers who orchestrated the Dahieh bombing,” Berri said in a released statement.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned on Thursday against the “killing machine that is moving from one city to another in Lebanon” after deadly twin blasts in the northern city of Tripoli killed over 27 people and wounded 358 others.

"These hands want to sow strife in Lebanon and overturn any moment of stability in the country,” Hariri said in a released statement.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati condemned on Friday the twin bombings in his hometown the northern city of Tripoli, saying that they are a “clear attempt to create strife.”

He said in a statement: “Tripoli and its residents however will once against demonstrate that they are more powerful than the conspiracy and they will not be lured towards strife.”

The death toll from twin car bombings Friday in the northern port city of Tripoli rose to 42, a security source said, in the bloodiest attack since the 1975-1990 civil war.

"The death toll has risen to 42 in Tripoli," the source told Agence France Presse.