Hawsh al-Abid Residents Block Road to Protest Power Cuts
Residents of a neighborhood in Mina in the northern city of Tripoli blocked a road with burning tires at dawn Sunday to protest power cuts, Voice of Lebanon radio station reported.
VDL (93.3) said that “party members” sought to interfere to prevent the angry Hawsh al-Abid residents from blocking the road.
It did not say who the party members were.
But gunfire was exchanged between two sides, the station said. No casualties were reported.
The Internal Security Forces contained the incident and launched an investigation, it added.
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