Tit-for-Tat Attacks in Tripoli … Burning Down Houses, Shops
Residents who belong to the rival political camps tried to block roads in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen in north Lebanon on Wednesday as others set a gas station on fire in protest of renewed unrest overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said Wednesday”s unrest followed tit-for-tat attacks that included burning down houses and shops in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen as well as in al-Bakkar quarter and Syria Street.
It said residents in Mallouleh burned down a gas station.
Other residents in nearby Beddawi attempted to set ablaze a gas station, NNA said, adding that security forces stepped in to prevent them from doing so.
Meanwhile, the death toll from heavy clashes earlier this week between pro- and anti-government supporters in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohen has risen to nine, a security official told AFP.
He said the latest victim died late Tuesday of his wounds.
The clashes on Sunday and Monday had pitted Sunni supporters of the majority in parliament against members of an Alawite sect loyal to the Hizbullah-led opposition.
The violence threatened to derail an agreement reached in Doha last month between rival politicians to end an 18-month political crisis in Lebanon.