The World - News from Jan. 10, 1989
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Rival Shia Muslim militia members battled each other in “horrific” fighting in which Syrian-backed Amal guerrillas recaptured strategic southern Lebanese villages from fundamentalists, police said. At least 80 people have been killed in the house-to-house combat between the mainstream Amal militia and the fundamentalist, Iranian-allied Hezbollah since daybreak Sunday, police said. A police spokesman in Sidon said that the fighters were committing “horrific atrocities . . . knifing, hacking and gunning each other” in the continuing power struggle.
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