DHAKA: Two people were killed and at least 10 others wounded on Saturday in sectarian clashes between residents of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

A security source told media, reports france24.com.

Clashes regularly erupt between Alawite residents of the Jabal Mohsen neighbourhood, who support their co-religionist Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and Sunnis from the Bab al-Tebbaneh district, who back the Sunni-led Syrian rebels.

The security source identified the two killed as 15-year-old named Omar al-Haswani and a man in his thirties called Jihad Merab, both Sunnis from Bab al-Tebbaneh.

He said that seven residents had been injured in the clashes.

The Lebanese army said in a statement that troops were on the ground, responding to sources of fire, and that two soldiers had been injured.

The statement added that another man from Jabal Mohsen had been injured earlier in the day by gunfire in different Sunni neighbourhood of the city.

BDST: 1945 HRS, NOV 30, 2013