Lebanese Tripoli pays price for Syria war

Residents of Lebanon's Tripoli have found themselves dragged in the neighbouring Syrian war as ethnic strife plays out on their streets, killing at least six people on Saturday, in the latest round of violence in the northern city. As politicians of the Arab nation's diverse sects side with rivaling parties in the Syrian disputes, sectarian tension in Tripoli, that has festered for decades, is picking up again. Sunday's gunfire followed repeated attacks on Alawites in Tripoli. Several people were shot and wounded in separate incidents this week, and Alawite men were beaten in an attack on a bus earlier in November. The divisions in Tripoli, only 30km from the Syrian border, reflect the sectarian gulf across Lebanon over Syria's civil war. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli.