Gunfire rang out over central Beirut on Sunday after the funeral of an assassinated intelligence chief ended in clashes, leaving the Lebanese capital on edge as it awaits further fall-out from a crisis widely seen as linked to the turmoil in neighbouring Syria.
Thousands followed an opposition call to rally in Beirut’s Martyr’s Square to mourn Wissam al-Hassan, a top security official who recently helped bring about the arrest of one of the Syrian regime’s most important allies in Lebanon.
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