Fierce Fighting Continues In The Lebanese City Of Sidon

Fighting Rages in Lebanon's Third Largest City -- Voice of America

Fierce fighting between Lebanese security forces and gunmen loyal to a hard-line Sunni Muslim cleric raged for a second day in the southern city of Sidon leaving dozens of soldiers and militants dead.

For two days radical Sunni gunmen have clashed with Lebanese soldiers - the worst fighting Lebanon’s third largest city has seen since 2008.

Army sources say at least 16 soldiers have died in the violence centered on a mosque in the Abra district in this port city.

Veteran politician Osama Saad said the battles remind him of the day his father, Maarouf, a pro-Palestinian and pro-Syrian Lebanese leader, was slain by a sniper’s bullet in Sidon in 1975.

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