TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Fighting between rival sects in Lebanon's second city killed two people including a 10-year-old girl on Thursday, security and medical sources said, in violence stoked by the war in neighbouring Syria.
Clashes between Sunni Muslims and members of the Shi'ite-derived Alawite sect in the northern city of Tripoli broke out after gunmen shot a Sunni man who had Alawite family members and lived in a mostly Alawite area of the city, the sources said.
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