Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Girl, 9, among the dead as Lebanon's military pledges to restore ...

A nine-year-old girl is among seven people killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli as violence following the killing of the country?s military intelligence chief spiralled.

The Lebanese military pledged to restore order to the country in what it described as a ?critical? period following the assassination of Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan on Friday afternoon.

Tripoli has frequently been hit by clashes between Sunnis, who oppose the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Alawites, who are members of Mr Assad?s clan.

Meanwhile, troops this morning continued to exchange fire with gunmen in the southern suburbs of Beirut, wounding five

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3575777.ece

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