The World - News from Oct. 8, 1986
Two masked men on a motorcycle shot to death a senior Sunni Muslim cleric with silencer-equipped pistols near a West Beirut mosque, police reported. There were no clues to the identities of the killers of Sheik Subhi Saleh, 53, regarded as the second-ranking Sunni leader in Lebanon. Meanwhile, six bullet-riddled bodies of Christian militiamen were found in a dry riverbed in East Beirut, police said. The victims were believed to be among 55 militiamen reported missing after a failed attempt last month by Elie Hobeika, an ousted pro-Syrian militia commander, to regain control of the Lebanese Forces, the nation’s largest Christian militia.
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