51 Lebanese soldiers injured in violence

The Lebanese army said on Wednesday that 51 Lebanese soldiers were wounded in different parts of the country overnight.

A statement issued by the Lebanese army said that 33 soldiers were injured in security incidents in Tripoli in northern Lebanon, 10 soldiers between the areas of Chiyah and Ain al-Rummaneh south of Beirut, and 8 soldiers in Bikfaya in Mount Lebanon. The army arrested 16 people for questioning in connection with the incidents in several Lebanese areas last night. ".

The statement added that "in Tripoli were exposed to public property and a number of banks and a party building, and threw an unexploded grenade and Molotov cocktails at the military, and threw stones, which led to the injury of thirty-three soldiers."

The statement added that "a number of motorcycles have been confiscated by their owners and fled."

The statement said that "on the old road of Sidon between the areas of Chiyah and Ain al-Rummanah and during the re-imposition of security and tranquility in the region, ten soldiers were injured by the exchange of stones between a number of people."

"In Bikfaya (in Mount Lebanon), as army units reopened the road, eight soldiers were injured as a result of stone-throwing between residents and motorcades, and the stampede that followed," the statement said.

The army units, according to the statement "to restore the situation to normal in various areas.

The clash took place in the town of Bikfaya in Mount Lebanon, on Tuesday night, when a convoy of supporters of the "Free Patriotic Movement" to enter the town of Bikfaya, prevented by supporters of the "Lebanese Phalange" party from entering the town, and the army intervened to disengage.

The army intervened to break up another clash that took place last night in Tripoli, when a group during a sit-in of the popular movement in the city, stormed the office of the "Free Patriotic Movement" and broke public property, and there was a clash between the towns of Ain Rummaneh and Chiyah south of Beirut between young people from the two areas, The army intervened to break it.