[AnNahar] Two people were killed and four others were maimed on Saturday in a clash between army troops and runaways in the Baalbek neighborhood of al-Sharawneh, state-run National News Agency reported."A woman was killed and five people were hurt as an exchange of gunfire erupted during an attempt by an army patrol to arrest the runaway Hamza Ali Saadallah Zoaiter near al-Tatri Hospital in the Baalbek neighborhood of al-Sharawneh," NNA said.
"The runaway Hamza in addition to Ali Hasan Saadallah Zoaiter and the child Nouh Sadeq Zoaiter -- who were with him in the car -- were maimed in the clash," the agency added.
It said a passerby was also killed and two others were maimed in the shootout.
"Tania Minni, 14, was killed and her body is still at the al-Tatri Hospital in Baalbek, while Samira Minni was seriously maimed in her head and transported to al-Abdallah Hospital in Riyaq," NNA said, adding that the child Sami Minni was lightly injured in the incident.
Later on Saturday, the Army Command's Orientation Directorate issued a statement clarifying that "as an army checkpoint tried to stop a car carrying a number of gunnies in al-Sharawneh, those inside it opened fire on the checkpoint's members, who returned fire."
Three gunnies and three civilian passersby were maimed in the incident, the statement said, adding that two of the bystanders later died of their wounds.
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and it turned out that two of them are wanted on arrest warrants, while the dead and the maimed were transported to hospitals in the region," the statement added, noting that "military police launched a probe into the incident under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities."