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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Miqati Asks Mansour to File Complaint over Syrian Fire on Border Areas
2013-02-25
[An Nahar] Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Sunday condemned the cross-border shelling from Syria into border towns in northern Leb.

"We denounce the death of Lebanese citizens in incidents they have nothing to do with and we call on the relevant Syrian authorities to take the appropriate measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents," said Miqati in a statement distributed by his office.

"I have asked the minister of foreign affairs (Adnan Mansour) to officially inform Syrian authorities of our rejection of this behavior and our demand that its recurrence be prevented," Miqati added.

Fierce fighting erupted during the night on the Syria-Leb border between Syrian troops and unknown gunnies, leaving a Lebanese man dead and four maimed, a Lebanese security source told Agence La Belle France Presse on Sunday.

The violence was triggered by the death hours earlier of another Lebanese man, who was killed on Saturday in gunfire coming from the Syria side of the border near a river separating the two countries, the security source said.

Members of his clan took part in the festivities against Syrian troops during the night in the Buqayaa region of northern Leb, a Lebanese official told AFP.

The Syrian army used artillery, mortars and automatic weapons fired from the Syrian village of Mcherfe as they clashed with the gunnies, according to the security source, who said a Lebanese man was killed and at least four others maimed in the fighting.

He was unable to say whether the gunnies were Lebanese or Syrians opposed to the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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