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Lebanese SNG operator wounded in Tripoli clashes

2012-08-24 73 Dailymotion

Hussein Nahleh, a satellite truck operator for international broadcaster Sky Arabia, recovers in hospital.<br/> <br />A bullet struck him when his vehicle was caught in gunfire in the ongoing clashes between Alawite and Sunni communities in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.<br/> <br />At least three people, including a Sunni Islamist commander, were killed there in the fifth day of the sporadic fighting.<br/> <br />Some fear the fighting is being fuelled by the conflict in neighbouring Syria, where Sunni Muslims form the backbone of the 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, part of the Alawite minority who are an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.<br/> <br />Tripoli's fighting has been along the same sectarian lines.

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