Friday, August 24, 2012

Lebanon: At least 3, including Sunni cleric, killed in sectarian clashes

Shiites are now sniping Sunni clerics.
(BBC) Three people, including a Sunni Muslim cleric, have been killed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli amid renewed sectarian clashes fuelled by the conflict in Syria, officials say.

Sheikh Khaled al-Baradei was shot by a sniper as fighting erupted between gunmen in the Sunni district of Qobbeh and the Alawite area of Jabal Muhsin.

The deaths bring to 15 the number of people killed in Tripoli since Monday.

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