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Soldiers Deployed in Beirut Following Clash

   VOA News 25 August 2010
   Civilians  and Lebanese soldiers are seen through a bullet riddled car
   window,  a day after street gunbattles in Beirut's residential area of
   Bourj Abu Haidar, Lebanon, 25 Aug 2010

Photo: AP

   Civilians  and Lebanese soldiers are seen through a bullet-riddled car
   window,  a day after street gunbattles in Beirut's residential area of
   Bourj Abu Haidar, Lebanon, 25 Aug 2010

   Lebanese  soldiers  patrolled  the  streets  of  a Beirut neighborhood
   Wednesday,  a  day  after  three people were killed in clashes between
   rival Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.
   Broken  glass  and  spent bullet casings littered the streets of Bourj
   Abi Haidar following violence that started as a fight between two men.
   Officials  say  a  confrontation  between  a  supporter of the Shi'ite
   militant  group  Hezbollah and another man from the conservative Sunni
   Muslim group al-Ahbash escalated into a four-hour shootout.
   The  two groups later issued a joint statement saying the flare-up was
   a  one-time  incident  resulting from a "personal dispute" and was not
   political.
   Participants  fired  machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades before
   Lebanese  soldiers intervened and cordoned off the area. Officials say
   three  people  were  wounded  in the clashes, and that two of the dead
   have been identified as Mohammad Fawaz, a Hezbollah security official,
   and his aide.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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