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| Two killed at Lebanese army checkpoint at Beirut airport | |
| 2007-05-28 | |
| BEIRUT - Two men were killed on Monday as their car sped away from a Lebanese army checkpoint outside Beirut international airport at a time of heightened tension in Lebanon, an army spokesman said. ‘The driver of the car, summoned by soldiers to stop for an identity check at the checkpoint, fled with two passengers. The soldiers fired at the tyre of the vehicle, which was being driven at speed and smashed into a wall,’ he said. ‘The two men, a Lebanese, Hassan Ali Karkai, and Hamadeh Hajj Ahmad, a Syrian, were killed on the spot,’ he told AFP, adding that an investigation was launched to determine if they died of gunshot wounds or because of the crash.
In the bloodiest internal clashes for decades, the army has since May 20 been fighting Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Meanwhile, the capital itself has been hit by a spate of bomb blasts in which one woman was killed and dozens of people were wounded. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |