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Thursday, October 14, 2021
Report: Relative calm returns to Beirut after hours of deadly factional fighting
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAl Jazeera reports that relative calm has returned to Beirut after some four hours of fighting between rival factions in the Lebanese capital.
Footage from a bit earlier shows armored personnel carriers driving through the capital amid chaotic scenes of gunfire.
DEADLY clashes in Beirut WAR ZONE as Lebanese Army tanks deployed
At least 4 people are dead and 20 more injured in the spiralling lethal violence in Beirut according to AFP amidst the allegedly Shiite Hezbollah-organized protests against the lead port blast investigator.-RT pic.twitter.com/70rOVmbAVS
— Moh Musthafa Hussain (@musthafaaa) October 14, 2021
It is still not clear who exactly fired at whom, how the clashes broke out and why.
The Hezbollah group and its Shiite allies from the Amal Militia, who had called for a protest against the lead judge probing last year’s massive blast in the city’s port, say their protesters came under fire from snipers deployed over rooftops in the Tayouneh area.
The Times of Israel Community.