Khalde highway was reopened after being blocked over the death of Mustafa Ramez Shqaif on Saturday.

The angry family of Shqaif blocked Khalde highway with burning tires after he sustained severe injuries that led to his death.

Two Lebanese children were killed in a traffic accident in the southeastern African state of Mozambique, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

NNA said that Karim Mohammed Basma and Jana Shalha, who hail from the southern town of Ain Baal, were travelling with their families to South Africa in a mini-van when the vehicle flipped over due to a flat tire.

The northern city of Tripoli enjoyed a cautious calm on Saturday morning after intermittent sniper fire that continued to terrify residents of the neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh, Jabal Mohsen and nearby areas left one person dead at dawn.

Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said one person was killed overnight from sniper fire that had a lower intensity than the past days.

Al-Mustaqbal movement rejects violence and gives its political backing to the army to thwart any attempt to create instability, al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc leader Fouad Saniora told personalities in the northern city of Tripoli.

Saniora, who returned from a vacation abroad, held a series of phone conversations with Premier Najib Miqati, Tripoli lawmakers and Mufti Sheikh Malek al-Shaar, his sources told An Nahar on Saturday.

Russia on Friday voiced its rejection of any interference in Lebanon’s internal affairs, in the wake of the deadly clashes that erupted in the northern city of Tripoli.

“Moscow is very concerned over the situation in Tripoli … and urges all parties to halt violence and respect the ceasefire reached on Wednesday with the support of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday said it was “very concerned by the continuing violence in Tripoli,” adding that “Assad regime officials should be held accountable for involvement in alleged attempts to destabilize Lebanon.”

The embassy expressed its “sincere condolences for the loss of life,” calling on all parties to “exercise restraint and respect for Lebanese security and stability.”

Five gunmen in a Grand Cherokee SUV on Friday kidnapped Syrian national Ata Hassan Alloush, 32, state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the gunmen abducted Alloush from his vegetable greenhouse at the intersection of the Baalbek town of Iaat and took him to an unknown location.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim acknowledged on Friday that the developments in Syria are affecting Lebanon and the formation of various armed groups in Lebanon is the result of the crisis in the neighboring country.

He said: “Lebanon however will not be dragged into a civil war.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun voiced on Friday his objection to the series of kidnappings that have taken place in Lebanon, saying that the causes of the incidents need to be addressed.

He said of the security unrest: “The instability will not spread to other areas because our political camp is containing it.”

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr issued on Friday arrest warrants against gunmen involved in the clashes in the northern city of Tripoli.

He ordered the military police, army intelligence, and Internal Security Forces to identify and arrest those involved in the Tripoli unrest.