Two assailants throw hand grenade at army post in Tripoli

The Lebanese army command issued on Thursday a communiqué in which it said that two unknown assailants on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at an army post in the northern city of Tripoli on Wednesday evening.

The statement added that  Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers opened fire at the motorcycle, wounding one of the assailants.

The injured person was transferred to nearby hospital to receive treatment.

This as judicial police launched an investigation into the incident under the supervision of the concerned authorities.

The port city of Tripoli has long been a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon.

But the city has become increasingly volatile in recent months due to the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority is leading a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli. These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.