Beirut protests death toll rises to three
Three people were killed in a shooting in Beirut today, Thursday, during protests to demand the departure of the judicial investigator in the Beirut port explosion file, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar, the "Lebanese News Agency" reported.
Today, the official agency announced the arrival of a new dead person to Al-Sahel Hospital, bringing the death toll to two in Al-Sahel Hospital and one in Al-Rasoul Al-Azam Hospital.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on "everyone to calm down and not be drawn into sedition for any reason."
Mikati said, according to a statement issued by his official website today, that he "followed up with the Armed Forces Commander General Joseph Aoun the measures taken by the army to control the situation in the Tayouneh-Adliya area and arrest the perpetrators of the attack, as he communicated with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri for the same purpose."
He pointed out that he followed up "with the Ministers of Interior Bassam Mawlawi and Defense Maurice Salim the situation and requested an emergency meeting of the Central Security Council to discuss the situation."
The Lebanese Red Cross announced that four teams of the Red Cross headed to Tayouneh to transport the wounded to hospitals.
The Lebanese army had announced that its deployed units “will shoot at any armed man on the roads and at anyone who shoots from anywhere else.
The army, in a statement on its Twitter account today, asked civilians to evacuate the streets.
The army said that while protesters were heading to the Adliya area, they were exposed to bursts of fire in the Tayouneh area - Badaro, pointing out that the army rushed to cordon off the area and spread in its neighborhoods and at its entrances, and began Patrols also began to search for the shooters to arrest them.
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