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The killing of a local politician has deepened sectarian and political faultines in Lebanon, raising fears of armed clashes between rival factions in a country already beset by a deep economic crisis, and cross-border shelling linked to the Gaza War. Government and religious officials have rushed to quell tensions after the killing of Pascal Sleiman prompted fears of renewed street brawls between rival parties and triggered beatings of Syrians. Sleiman headed the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Party in a predominantly Christian coastal area.

The Lebanese army announced on Monday the killing of Pascal Sleiman, the Lebanese Forces coordinator in Jbeil who was kidnapped on Sunday. He was killed by his abductors as they were trying to steal his car in the Jbeil region north of Beirut, said the army. His corpse has been taken to Syria. The Army Command said military intelligence succeeded in arresting the majority of the members of the Syrian gang that took part in the kidnapping. They confessed to Sleiman’s murder.

Lebanese security forces have arrested seven Syrians on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a local politician, a judicial official said Tuesday, amid a backlash against Syrian refugees.Sleiman, rose to seven, all of them Syrian," the judicial official told AFP. "The kidnappers admitted that their goal was stealing the victim's car," the official added.

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الوكالة الوطنية للإعلامNNA - Major General Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday vehemently condemned via his social media accounts the assassination of Pascal Sleiman.  “Condemnation, denunciation, and outrage a