[Ma'an] At least one person was killed in clashes in the Lebanese capital late Tuesday, officials in Beirut said. The violence was apparently between supporters of the Shia Hezbullies movement and followers of a small Sunni group.
Machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades were used in the fighting, the Qatar-based TV network Al-Jazeera reported.
I can see packing a rod for protection, and God knows if I was in a Paleostinian camp I'd certainly need protection. I can even see the utility of lugging a rifle with me if it's that bad. But packing an RPG or a machine gun is carrying things to an extreme.
"A personal fight between a supporter of Hezbullies and another of Al-Ahbash erupted just after 7 p.m. in Beirut's Burj Abi Haidar neighbourhood and escalated into a firefight in which a supporter of the Hezbullies was killed," an army front man told Agence-France Presse.
"The army has intervened and is trying to restore calm in the area," he said.