EIGHT DEAD IN LEBANON NIGHTCLUB SHOOTOUT

BEIRUT: Eight Lebanese including two soldiers were killed yesterday in a dawn shootout between security forces and two fugitives outside a nightclub north of Beirut, the army said. Mehdi Hussein Zeaiter and Ahmad Ali Ammar fired on an army patrol pursuing them outside a nightclub in the Maameltein area near the coastal city of Jounieh, “which led to the deaths of two soldiers,” an army statement said. Lebanon’s National News Agency said two young women civilians were among the dead. – AFP