BEIRUT: A child died and another was critically injured as clashes broke out again Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli, security sources told The Daily Star.
Ahmed Khaled Sayyed, 11, died as a result of sniper fire in the largely Sunni Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh.
Mahmoud Fakhreddine, 19, was also critically injured by sniper fire in the neighborhood and was transferred to the Islamic Hospital, the sources said.
Sniper fire was ongoing in the Al-Zahiriya neighborhood all the way up to the Abu Ali roundabout and Malloula.
A shell also landed by the Rahman Mosque on Syria Street.
This is the 20th round of fighting between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh, which supports the Syrian uprising, and the mainly Alawite Jabal Mohsen, which supports President Bashar Assad, since the uprising began in March 2011.
In a bid to curb the cycle of violence in the city, the government decided in December to place Tripoli under the command of the Army for a period of six months, but the plan has been undermined by two rounds of fighting this year.
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