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Two Killed, Four Wounded in Tripoli Clashes |
2013-06-30 |
![]() One person was killed by an explosive device he was handling, a security source told Agence France Presse. The dead man, Abdullah al-Shmaytiyeh, died when the home-made bomb detonated prematurely, the source said adding that two other people were wounded in the blast in the west Tripoli neighborhood of al-Baqqar. Following the incident, gun battles broke out between Baqqar, a Sunni Muslim neighborhood, and Jabal Mohsen, an Alawite district, wounding four residents. Another person was killed, identified as Khaled al-Trabulsi, in the sniper activity that took place between the two neighborhoods. The state-run National News Agency reporter earlier that the clash initially started as a dispute with the army, but escalated into an armed clash when gunmen intervened to resolve it. was killed and an unidentified woman wounded in the ensuing shootout in Tripoli's al-Baqqar neighborhood. Soon after the incident, youths blocked the main road in al-Baqqar. |
Posted by:Fred |
#5 If they're "Tri-polis", does that mean there is one more lying around somewhere? |
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196 2013-06-30 18:12 |
#4 Never been there. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-30 14:07 |
#3 So it's not just newscasters that don't know their Tripolis... :-) |
Posted by: Steve White 2013-06-30 11:58 |
#2 Ooops---another part of Tripoli. But even better news. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-30 02:17 |
#1 "Miss me yet?" Muammar. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-30 02:16 |