Syria spillover clashes escalate in Lebanon
Source: Al Jazeera
A sniper has killed a Sunni sheikh in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, sparking new clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian factions that dashed a tenuous truce, a security official has told the AFP news agency.
The death of 28-year-old Sheikh Khaled al-Baradei on Friday brought to 17 the number of people killed in fighting in the city over the past five days and stoked fears of a spillover of major violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
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The intensity of the exchanges sparked large fires in the two neighbourhoods in the east of the Mediterranean port city, Lebanon's second largest.
Al Jazeera's James Bays reporting in Tripoli on Friday said: "The authorities have been trying to contain this trouble for five days, but the killing of the sheikh could change this."
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