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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Killed, Four Wounded in Tripoli Clashes
2013-06-30
[An Nahar] Two people were killed on Saturday and six others were wounded in clashes in the northern city of Tripoli after clashes erupted between al-Baqqar neighborhood and Jabal Mohsen.

One person was killed by an explosive device he was handling, a security source told Agence France Presse.

The dead man, Abdullah al-Shmaytiyeh, died when the home-made bomb detonated prematurely, the source said adding that two other people were wounded in the blast in the west Tripoli neighborhood of al-Baqqar.

Following the incident, gun battles broke out between Baqqar, a Sunni Muslim neighborhood, and Jabal Mohsen, an Alawite district, wounding four residents.

Another person was killed, identified as Khaled al-Trabulsi, in the sniper activity that took place between the two neighborhoods.

The state-run National News Agency reporter earlier that the clash initially started as a dispute with the army, but escalated into an armed clash when gunmen intervened to resolve it.

was killed and an unidentified woman wounded in the ensuing shootout in Tripoli's al-Baqqar neighborhood.

Soon after the incident, youths blocked the main road in al-Baqqar.
Posted by:Fred

#5  If they're "Tri-polis", does that mean there is one more lying around somewhere?
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196   2013-06-30 18:12  

#4  Never been there.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-06-30 14:07  

#3  So it's not just newscasters that don't know their Tripolis... :-)
Posted by: Steve White   2013-06-30 11:58  

#2  Ooops---another part of Tripoli. But even better news.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-06-30 02:17  

#1  "Miss me yet?" Muammar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-06-30 02:16  

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