[An Nahar] The Lebanese army said on Thursday that it arrested a main suspect in a shooting on a soldier at the state hospital in the area of al-Qobbeh in the northern city of Tripoli."Following a series of raids a military force arrested at dawn one of the main suspects of the shooting," an army command communique said.
It identified the suspect as Jihad Dandashi.
The communique said he is being interrogated under the supervision of the judiciary and that the army is searching for the rest of the suspects.
The army said on Wednesday night that the soldier was wounded along with his brother when gunmen entered the hospital and opened fire at him.
A third person was also wounded in the incident, it said. Media reports later said the man succumbed to his injuries.
The shooting later expanded into an exchange of fire between the residents of rival neighborhoods Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh, the army added.
Frequent clashes between the two areas have left dozens of casualties. The majority of Bab al-Tabbaneh residents are Sunni and back the revolution against Syrian President Bashar Assad while Jabal Mohsen's residents are mainly Alawites from Assad's sect.