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      CORRECTION - Lebanon: Beirut protester uses tennis racket to launch stones during clashes with security forces01:54

      CORRECTION - Lebanon: Beirut protester uses tennis racket to launch stones during clashes with security forces

      Lebanon, Beirut
      PoliticsBeirut port blasts
      August 9, 2020 at 22:47 GMT +00:00 · Published

      An anti-government protester was filmed in Beirut on Sunday using a tennis racket to launch pieces of stone amid clashes with Lebanese security forces.

      Footage also shows a group of protesters assisting a man with a head injury.

      Thousands of demonstrators have been voicing their anger at the government which they blame for Tuesday's port explosions.

      [CORRECTION: The original title said protesters were using tennis rackets to bat away tear gas canisters. This has been amended to indicate that a tennis racket was used to launch fragments of stone]

      CORRECTION - Lebanon: Beirut protester uses tennis racket to launch stones during clashes with security forces01:54
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      An anti-government protester was filmed in Beirut on Sunday using a tennis racket to launch pieces of stone amid clashes with Lebanese security forces.

      Footage also shows a group of protesters assisting a man with a head injury.

      Thousands of demonstrators have been voicing their anger at the government which they blame for Tuesday's port explosions.

      [CORRECTION: The original title said protesters were using tennis rackets to bat away tear gas canisters. This has been amended to indicate that a tennis racket was used to launch fragments of stone]

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