In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, center, inspects damage to a mosque following Tuesday night's clashes in Beirut's neighborhood of Basta, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Hariri's visit comes two days after the fighting in a residential neighborhood of Beirut killed three members of the Shiite Hezbollah group and a follower of the conservative Sunni al-Ahbash group.
(AP Photo/Dalati Nohra, HO)
Lebanon arrests 4 after deadly Beirut shootout
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, center, inspects damage to a mosque following Tuesday night's clashes in Beirut's neighborhood of Basta, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Hariri's visit comes two days after the fighting in a residential neighborhood of Beirut killed three members of the Shiite Hezbollah group and a follower of the conservative Sunni al-Ahbash group.
(AP Photo/Dalati Nohra, HO)
BEIRUT—Lebanese authorities have arrested four suspects in this week's deadly Beirut street battle between the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group and a small Sunni group.
The suspects are accused of attacking and setting fire to a Sunni mosque during Tuesday's hours-long clash, which killed three people, including two Hezbollah members. It was the worst fighting in Beirut since 2008.
A senior security official says the arrests were made in army raids Friday night in the Bourj Abu Haidar residential neighborhood, where the fighting took place.
The official spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.
Witnesses said the fighting was touched off by a traffic dispute that escalated when local gunmen gathered reinforcements.
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