At least five people were killed and 30 injured when gunfire erupted Thursday at a protest in Beirut, Lebanon.
Oct.14 (UPI) — At least five people were killed and 30 injured when gunfire erupted Thursday at a protest in Beirut, Lebanon. Shots were fired at protesters while Iran-backed Hezbollah supporters marched to the city’s Palace of Justice to protest a judge who has sought to prosecute high-level officials in the deadly explosion at Beirut’s port last year. «It’s clear that those who fired at the protesters were organized armed groups who have been planning this attack since yesterday,» a high-ranking Hezbollah official told CNN. «We will not fire back. They want to drag us into civil strife and we do not want to sow civil strife.
