Tripoli, Mar 15 Nine people have been killed in 48 hours of clashes in Lebanon’s northern town of Tripoli linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria, a security source said today.
The violence between two districts of the city caused local schools to close and cut traffic flow in the city to a trickle, an AFP correspondent said.
The clashes, which have also injured 50 people, pit the Alawite district of Jabal Mohsen against the neighbouring Sunni quarter of Bab al-Tebbaneh.
