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BEIRUT (Reuters) -At least two people were killed in Beirut on Thursday when heavy gunfire targeted supporters of the Lebanese Shi ite group Hezbollah, as they headed to a protest demanding the removal of the judge investigating last year s explosion at the city s port. The shooting on a frontline of the 1975-90 civil war marks some of Lebanon s worst civil strife in years, and highlights a deepening political crisis over the probe into the catastrophic Aug. 4, 2020 blast. The Lebanese army said in a statement the gunfire had targeted protesters as they passed through a traffic circle located in an area dividing Christian and Shi ite Muslim neighbourhoods. As Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for calm, a military source told Reuters two people had been killed and seven more wounded. The shooting began from the Christian neighborhood of Ain el-Remmaneh before spiralling into an exchange of fire, the source added. Hezbollah s al-Manar TV said two martyrs and a number of wounded had been

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