Child Dies, Troops Injured in Tripoli Clashes
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Clashes between the Lebanese army and gunmen left a child dead and several injured on Tuesday as roads in and around the northern city of Tripoli remained blocked, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The fighting renewed on Tuesday morning after a cautious calm following a night of gunbattles between the army and masked men.
A 12-year-old girl died after she was shot in the head, and several people were injured from sniper fire, NNA said.
Seven soldiers, were also wounded, one of them seriously, when their bus came under fire on the road that links Tripoli with the northern district of Akkar, the army announced.
The military communique said army units were searching for the attackers to arrest them.
The roads, which lead to the impoverished neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh and mainly the highway that links Tripoli with Akkar, remained closed.
The clashes between the masked fighters and the army erupted after news broke about the injury of Muslim scholars in the northeastern border town of Arsal where the military is locked in gunbattles with terrorists, it added.
Media reports said that Sheikhs Salim al-Rafehi, Nabil al-Halabi and Jalal Kalash from the Muslim Scholars Committee were wounded late Monday after coming under fire.
They were in Arsal to negotiate a ceasefire.
Tripoli had been relatively calm since the army and security forces implemented a plan in April to restore law and order.
The city had in the past witnessed several rounds of deadly fighting between Bab al-Tabbaneh, whose residents are Sunnis, and Jabal Mohsen, a mainly Alawite neighborhood that backs Syrian President Bashar Assad.
G.K.
H.K.
05 August 2014, 11:37
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sectarian mobsters attacking the army to defend terrorists in arsal.
05 August 2014, 15:13
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secterian terrorists in tripoli are the result of secterian terrorists who crossed to syria playing secterian war games.
meaning: the lebanese army is paying the bill of the two terrorist groups.
but.....the lebanese army will prevail alone at the end,no doubt about it.
05 August 2014, 20:05
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Long time no see ya mustapha o. ghalayini. I used to enjoy reading your comments back in the old Naharnet site. Not many of us left.
05 August 2014, 14:56
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Oh I see, this is the place where all the "Seculars" meet and debate, LOL.
05 August 2014, 18:00
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Here is a summary of what has been happening in lebanon since 1974: it is evolution's way of getting rid of idiots. unfortunately, it's taking a while. A summary of how people think? Just look at how they drive! Everyone to himself. That's why the country is messed up, and it will always be messed up. come on Darwin!
