TRIPOLI: The death toll from three days in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli rose to 10 on Saturday, security and medical sources said, in violence stoked by the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
One person was killed by a sniper and four more died on Saturday from injuries sustained earlier in the week during clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawite sect in Lebanon's second city.
The fighting broke out on Thursday after gunmen fatally shot a man. A 10-year-old girl died in the resulting clashes and three others died from their wounds the next day.
More than 50 people, including at least eight Lebanese soldiers, were wounded in clashes in which snipers and rocket-propelled grenades were used.
The fighting had subsided by Saturday following intervention by the army, but snipers from both sides were still operating around Syria Street.
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