Suicide bomber kills army soldier in South #Lebanon
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Lebanese army soldiers patrol a street in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on December 4, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ibrahim Chalhoub)
A Lebanese soldier and four attackers were killed in two separate assaults late Sunday on army checkpoints in the southern city of #Sidon, the military said in a statement. “At 9:15 pm today (Sunday) an armed man approached an army checkpoint in the north of Sidon, and launched a hand grenade towards it, injuring two soldiers,” the army statement said. “Troops manning the checkpoint fired back at the attacker, leading to his death,” it added. read (...)