‘Stand-off’ after battle in Lebanon
NZPA-Reuter Beirut An Irish soldier has been shot and seriously wounded in a gun-battle between Irish peace-keeping troops and Is-raeli-backed Rightists in southern Lebanon, an Irish embassy spokesman has said in Beirut.
He said the battle had flared after men under the command of the renegade Lebanese Army major, Saad Haddad, moved into the village of At-Tiri, which is under the control of the Irish contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
The spokesman said that after the battle Irish troops had surrounded the village and trapped the 20 Rightists inside.
; In retaliation, Rightists , had kidnapped 10 Irish troops from a position byThe spokesman said that ; talks to resolve what he ■ termed a stand-off were ' being held at the village of . Beit Tahoun. The wounded soldier, whose name was not released, had been taken to a hospital in the Israeli city of Haif.
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Press, 9 April 1980, Page 8
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