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Protesters, Soldiers Clash in Lebanon as COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens Financial
Crisis

VOA News

   Hundreds of protesters set two banks on fire and clashed with soldiers
   Tuesday in Tripoli, as the country's crippling financial crisis is
   worsened by coronavirus lockdown measures, medical and security sources
   said.

   Clashes erupted, the sources said, after a tense funeral for a man who
   was shot to death by soldiers during riots overnight in the mostly
   Sunni Muslim city, one of the most impoverished and neglected areas in
   Lebanon.

   Angry protesters hurled stones at soldiers and threw Molotov cocktails
   at several banks, causing widespread damage and fueling concerns of
   more chaos.

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