ISF Launches Crackdown on Gunmen in Tripoli
Tripoli police chief Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Ayyoubi on Thursday announced the launching of a crackdown on gunmen “who open fire in the air or attack citizens and their properties” in the restive northern city.
According to the National News Agency, Ayyoubi stressed that the Internal Security Forces, in cooperation with the army, will “strike with an iron fist.”
He pledged during a press conference that security forces “will enforce the applicable laws and shoot back at gunmen.”
Ayyoubi then escorted reporters on a tour of the positions of the Internal Security Forces in the city.
Earlier on Thursday, young men fired in the air in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in celebration of the discharge from hospital of their relative, sparking panic among residents, NNA said.
Later, “the army brought reinforcements and staged patrols in Syria Street which separates the (rival) district of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, restoring normalcy after the tension caused by the celebratory gunfire.”
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