The World - News from Aug. 7, 1989
Two Lebanese girls drowned after Syrian rocket fire capsized a boat packed with refugees fleeing Lebanon’s civil war. The boat was ferrying passengers from the besieged Christian port of Juniyah to a Hovercraft bound for Cyprus when a Syrian rocket battery opened fire. Crew members from the Hovercraft lowered life rafts and picked up six passengers, while eight others were rescued by a fishing boat. In Beirut, three people were killed and 18 wounded in duels between Syrian and Christian forces and in clashes across the capital’s dividing Green Line.
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