The World - News from June 5, 1989

Syrian and Christian gunners unleashed artillery barrages across Beirut, killing two civilians and wounding 19 others, police said. Police said the deaths in the latest round of Lebanon’s civil war occurred in Christian East Beirut when Syrian gunners pounded that side of the divided capital. Fourteen people were wounded in the Christian sector, police said. Five others were wounded when shells struck Muslim West Beirut. The casualties were the first since May 11, when the Arab League called a cease-fire to halt nine weeks of fierce artillery duels. Officials said the renewed violence dimmed prospects for this week’s meeting in Morocco of a three-member Arab League committee seeking to find a permanent solution to the war.