Several people were wounded as new clashes erupted on Wednesday between the army and rival neighborhoods in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, a security official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said shooting erupted after soldiers tried to remove barricades in the sensitive mainly neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh.
The neighborhood sits opposite Jabal Mohsen, a district populated mainly by loyalists to the embattled regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Bab al-Tebbaneh residents for their part back the opposition seeking to overturn Assad’s regime.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said shooting erupted after soldiers tried to remove barricades in the sensitive mainly neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh.
The neighborhood sits opposite Jabal Mohsen, a district populated mainly by loyalists to the embattled regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Bab al-Tebbaneh residents for their part back the opposition seeking to overturn Assad’s regime.
Battles first erupted on Saturday between residents of the rival neighborhoods after security forces arrested Shadi al-Mawlawi, an Islamist, on alleged charges of belonging to a terrorist organization.
Mawlawi’s supporters say he was targeted because of his help for Syrian refugees fleeing to Lebanon.
Some 500 of them blocked a main road leading into Tripoli on Monday and said they would leave only after Mawlawi was released.
A total of nine people, including a soldier hit by sniper fire, died in the port city and dozens were wounded in the fighting.
Mawlawi’s supporters say he was targeted because of his help for Syrian refugees fleeing to Lebanon.
Some 500 of them blocked a main road leading into Tripoli on Monday and said they would leave only after Mawlawi was released.
A total of nine people, including a soldier hit by sniper fire, died in the port city and dozens were wounded in the fighting.
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