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Clashes erupt in northern Lebanon
Clashes in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli have left at least two people dead and 41 wounded on Wednesday, security sources said.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:31 July 9, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- Lebanese security officials say the heavy fighting erupted between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon.
Tripoli: Clashes in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli have left at least two people dead and 41 wounded on Wednesday, security sources said.
Four grenades fired at a street separating the Sunni Bab Tibbaneh district and Alawite Jabal Mohsen district sparked the deadly clashes.
Lebanese security officials say the heavy fighting erupted between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon, shattering a fragile truce that lasted just two weeks.
Earlier, officials said at least 18 people, including five soldiers, were wounded in the clashes in that began overnight and continued Wednesday morning.
Last month, nine people were killed and 44 others were wounded in two days of fierce sectarian fighting between Sunni Muslim government supporters and Alawite followers of the Hezbollah-led opposition.
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