Tension in Tripoli after Personal Feud at Vegetable Market
Tension was felt in the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday evening and gunshots were heard in the region following a personal feud that took place at a vegetable market.
“The residents of (the Tripoli neighborhood of) Jabal Mohsen blocked a northern road with burned tires after men from (the area of) Bab al-Tabbaneh attacked two people from their neighborhood,” Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5) said.
LBCI television added: “Bursts of machine gun have been heard in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen following the incident”.
Meanwhile, VDL (93.3) said an Inerga-type rocket was dropped on Syria street that separates Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighborhoods.
Arab Democratic Party official Rifaat Eid told LBCI: “What happened in Jabal Mohsen is a spontaneous reaction to the feud in the vegetable market”.
“The security forces promised to follow-up on the situation,” he noted.
Separately, the international road in Tripoli was blocked for over an hour also on Saturday as residents demanded information on Hasan Srour and Mohammed al-Rifai who are missing in Syria.
Eid labeled on Thursday the situation in Tripoli as “intolerable”, warning against the lack of security and the “sectarian killing” taking place in the northern region.
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