Two people were killed, including an 11-year-old boy, and 11 hurt in a gunbattle between two groups of Palestinians overnight following a dispute in the West Bank city of Nablus, hospital sources said Thursday.
Firas al-Aghbar, 11, and Khaireddin Masri, 20, were killed by stray bullets during the four-hour battle which also saw the town center wrecked.
The clash started when Ahmad Tabuk, a former Palestinian policeman, fired on two other people, seriously wounding them, the sources said.
Swearing revenge, relations and neighbors of the two wounded men, who lived in a refugee camp near Nablus, marched on the town. Including other policemen, they clashed with Tabuk's gang of about 20 men.
The Palestinian territories are awash with guns, particularly since the start of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule which broke out in September -- NABLUS, West Bank (AFP)
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