Lebanese Christian group denies Hezbollah claim it planned Beirut bloodshed

FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah attend a funeral of people who were killed in violence in Beirut on Thursday, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

(Corrects name of local radio in paragraph 3 to Voice of Beirut, not Voice of Lebanon, after LF corrected name in statement)

BEIRUT (Reuters) -The head of the Christian Lebanese Forces party (LF) denied late on Friday his group had planned street violence in Beirut that killed seven people, and said a meeting held the day before was purely political.