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The shootout took place on Thursday in the center of Lebanon’s capital Beirut during a protest rally against new taxes. This was told by eyewitnesses.
“The attendant of one of the officials began to shoot into the air from one of the motorcade’s cars, after the protesters did not let them through, and then began to threaten with a machine gun, directing him at the demonstrators”, – the eyewitness said.
According to him, a motorcade car hit one demonstrator near the Lebanese Parliament building.