TRIPOLI: One demonstrator was killed and two others were wounded in clashes with security forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday in Islamist protests over a film insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad and against the pope's visit to Lebanon.
A security source said the man was killed as protesters tried to storm a government building.
Earlier a US fast food restaurant was set alight. Twelve members of the security forces were wounded by stones thrown by protesters, the source said.
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