A firefight between pro- and anti-Damascus factions in Beirut has killed one gunman and wounded 13, in the latest spillover of the conflict in Syria.
The early morning gun battle raged for more than five hours on Sunday in a poor Sunni Muslim district in the south of the Lebanese capital, security officials said.
A heavy deployment by the army brought a halt to the fighting.
The battle pitted members of a small pro-Damascus Sunni group - the Arab Movement Party (AMP) - against gunmen opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
A pro-Damascus activist said the dead man was an AMP member.
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Lebanon's National News Agency said the Assad supporters came under attack by hardline Sunni Islamists.
Witnesses said the opposing gunmen were members of small Lebanese and Palestinian factions hostile to Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, whose militants have intervened in Syria alongside Assad's forces.
The fighting comes after nine days of clashes between pro- and anti-Assad groups rocked Lebanon's second city Tripoli, killing 24 people and wounding 128.
