Outrage over the clash of Lebanon’s national currency that sent food prices rising heated over into street disturbance overnight in the northern city of Tripoli, where a man injured in clashes between protesters and security forces died Tuesday.
Demonstrations also emitted elsewhere in Lebanon, leaving numbers wounded and more than a dozen people arrested, according to the Lebanese military.
The army announced a fire-bomb was thrown at one of its vehicles and a hand grenade was thrown at a patrol during rioting in Tripoli, mildly wounding two soldiers. Public and private property had been struck and banks set on fire, it said.
The army accused “troublemakers who had infiltrated the protesters to attack banks”, throwing firebombs and grenades at the military and setting a military vehicle on fire. It said 54 troops were injured across the country and that the army detained 13 people
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