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| 23/06/2008 Four people were killed, including a policeman, and at least 40 others wounded in North Lebanon on Sunday in clashes between Future Movement fighters and Arab Democratic Party.
Policeman Samer Rashid was hit by a stray bullet inside his home in the Al-Qobbeh district of the Northern port city of Tripoli, a security official said.
Another man, Bourhane al-Khatib, died after being hit by a bullet in the heart during clashes at Jabal Mohsen, a medic said after the 22-year-old was taken to a hospital in the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Beddawi. Ahmad Hussein al-Sayyed and a member of the Abdullah family were also killed.
According to a security official, many of those wounded were caught in the crossfire or hit by stray bullets while inside their homes.
As calm was restored in the afternoon, representatives of the feuding parties met in Tripoli and agreed on the army taking charge of security and for gunmen to keep off the streets, said a participant who declined to be identified.
Tripoli's Sunni Mufti Malek al-Shaar hosted a number of meetings at his residence in the city in an effort to put an end to the clashes. Shaar called on the security forces to deploy in the area in force and react strictly to any security violation.
Fighting began at 4:15 am (0115 GMT) early Sunday in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, northern sectors of the city of Tripoli. Clashes extended to the al-Qobbe zone in the east of Tripoli where families could be seen fleeing the district. Twenty-one of those wounded, in Bab al-Tebbaneh and al-Qobbe, were taken to the Islamic Hospital of Tripoli, the security official said. One of them was suffering a severe wound to the head.
Mortars, Rocket-Propelled Grenade launchers and automatic rifles were used in the confrontation, police reported.
Local reporters in Tripoli said that the thuds of exploding RPGs and Mortar rounds echoed across the city early in the morning accompanied by staccato bursts of machine gun fire. | 
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