The Lebanese army said on Saturday that it arrested several people involved in shooting incidents in the eastern town of Hermel and the northern city of Tripoli’s Qubbah region which resulted in the death of three people.
An army communiqué said the military arrested 11 people involved in the shooting on a policeman in Hermel and seized arms and ammunition from them.
“Corporal Anwar Mohammad Nasseredine, who was in his 20s, was killed on the spot when gunmen opened fire from their jeep as he drove through town in his private car,” a security official said Friday.

“The incident was a settling of accounts in a family feud,” he said.

The communiqué also said that the army arrested several gunmen, who took part in the Qubbah clashes, which killed two brothers.

An argument over a child hit by a car escalated into an exchange of gunfire between two families, an army spokesman said Friday.

“The child was hit by a car earlier today in Qubbah, Tripoli but was unharmed,” the spokesman said.