The World - News from May 22, 1986
At least 17 people were reported killed and 60 wounded as Christian and Muslim militias clashed in their heaviest artillery battle across Beirut’s dividing Green Line in four months. Thunderous shell blasts shook the Christian and Muslim sectors of the Lebanese capital as the militias exchanged fire with howitzers and rocket launchers.
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