5 Reported Killed in Lebanon Clashes
BEIRUT — Five people died in gunfire south of the Lebanese capital, including a pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla official attempting to mediate an end to the violence, security sources said Monday.
The sources said that inhabitants of the village of Ketermaya, 18 miles south of Beirut in the Shouf Mountain foothills, clashed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades late Sunday.
It was not immediately known what started the fighting in the area controlled by the Druze Progressive Socialist Party of Walid Jumblatt. Two people were killed and several were wounded in the clashes, the sources said.
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