REPORT: One killed as clashes renew in Lebanon's Tripoli

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18-03-2014 | 13:24
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REPORT: One killed as clashes renew in Lebanon's Tripoli

One person died of wounds he sustained as clashes renewed in several fighting axes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.

Sources told LBCI that 3 Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers were also injured.      

The state-run National News Agency reported that a number of rocket-propelled grenades fell in the vicinity of Al-Nasiri mosque, and Talaat al-Omari, adding that heavy gunfire was reported.        

Lebanese army units are responding to the sources of fire, the agency said.         

Later on, the media official of the Arab Democratic Party Abdul Latif Saleh said, in a phone call with LBCI, that citizen Haidar Ibrahim Ali was seriously wounded by sniper fire from Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh.

Also on Tuesday, a number of young men from Tripoli held a demonstration outside the Rashid Karami International Fair Complex to protest the continuous battles in the city.

The protesters hoisted banners condemning violence and battles in the city that witnessed 20 rounds of violence, and vowed to take escalatory measures should the concerned parties fail to end those battles.

A new round of clashes erupted in Tripoli on Thursday March 13th killing at least 12 and injuring 63 others.

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.


To watch Foutoun Raad's report, please click on the video above.

 

 

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