(1 Dec 2013) Clashes between supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his opponents have killed nine people and wounded at least 70 in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli over the weekend, the state news agency said on Sunday.
Sectarian clashes linked to the war in neighbouring Syria often flare in the coastal city between two impoverished rival neighbourhoods.
They are divided along sectarian lines, as well as by their opposition or support of the Alawite-led Syrian government.
The Bab Tabbaneh district is largely Sunni Muslim, as are most of the Syrian rebels fighting Bashar Assad's rule.
Residents of Jabal Mohsen are mostly of Assad's Alawite sect.
Tripoli is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, but the fighting rarely spreads beyond the two neighbourhoods.
Fighting began on Saturday after Sunni gunmen shot a man whose brother controls an Alawite militia, sparking gun battles that trapped children in schools and forced traders to flee their shops.
Some of the wounded were treated at Al-Islami hospital in Tripoli.
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