Syria-linked sectarian clash in Lebanon kills 3

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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police say sectarian clashes linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria have killed at least three people overnight in the northern city of Tripoli.

Violence related to Syria’s conflict frequently breaks out between two impoverished rival neighborhoods in Tripoli, one dominated by Sunni Muslims and the other by members of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect.

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