Sniper fire kills one as clashes flare in Lebanon's Tripoli


  • World
  • Sunday, 05 Jan 2014

BEIRUT (Reuters) - One man was shot dead and six people were wounded in clashes on Sunday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli between districts that support rival sides in neighbouring Syria's civil war.

Medical and security sources said sniper fire killed the civilian from Tripoli's Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tabbaneh district, whose residents overwhelmingly support the Sunni rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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