ONE MURDERED, ANOTHER WOUNDED IN ANTI-LIQUOR SHOOTINGS IN LEBANON

SIDON, Lebanon, Aug 30 (AFP) - A grocer selling alcoholic beverages was
murdered Sunday and another seriously wounded in the first anti-liquor
attacks in the Sidon area for a year, Lebanese police said.

Two men burst into Wajih Ramadan's shop in Wadi Zayne, five kilometres
(three miles) north of Sidon, and opened fire with a machine gun, killing
Ramadan instantly.

The pair then fled on a motorcycle to Ramile, just outside Sidon, where
they entered the store of grocer Abu Fadi Abbas and shot him also, police
said.

Abbas survived but is seriously wounded, they said. Liquor has not been
sold in Sidon for three years, after a series of anti-alcohol attacks,
including a bombing, left several people dead.

Abu Mohjen, head of the underground Islamic group Osbat al Ansar, has been
widely accused of those attacks, which have never been claimed.

Checked-by: Richard Lake