Woman killed by New Year gunfire

CELEBRATORY gunfire to ring in the new year killed a Syrian woman living as a refugee in eastern Lebanon and struck a plane parked at Beirut’s airport in two separate incidents, Lebanon’s official news agency has said. The Syrian woman died early on Friday after a bullet struck her in the head at a refugee camp in Baalbek, according to the National News Agency. The Middle East Airlines plane at Beirut’s airport was hit as people in the vicinity of the southern Beirut neighbourhood fired in the air in celebration.