Gunmen shoot Lebanese mayor as Syria war ignites local rivalries
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Gunmen shot the mayor of a town in Lebanon and killed two of his companions only hours after he oversaw a hostage swap with a rival clan in an area increasingly riven by sectarian divisions, security sources said on Sunday.
The attack near the border with Syria highlights how the civil war there has worsened enmity between Lebanese Shiite and Sunni Muslim militias that support opposing sides of the two-year-old conflict. (Reuters)
