TRIPOLI: Six people, including a 15-year-old schoolboy, were killed and 22 wounded yesterday in sectarian clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security source said.
The Lebanese army, which deployed in the city and evacuated children from the school where the teenager was killed, said seven soldiers were among those hurt in the ongoing clashes.
Violence regularly erupts between Alawite residents of the Jabal Mohsen neighbourhood, who support their co-religionist Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, and Sunnis from the Bab Al Tebbaneh district, who back Sunni-led Syrian rebels.
Two of the fatalities were named as 15-year-old Omar Al Haswani, who was killed inside the Luqman school, and a man in his thirties called Jihad Merab. They were both Sunnis from Bab Al Tebbaneh. Two other residents of the Sunni neighbourhood had also been killed, along with a Palestinian and a Syrian, but there were no immediate details on their names or ages.AFP
