Dispute between STL Investigators and a Crowd of Women in Southern Suburbs

A dispute broke out Wednesday between investigators from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and a crowd of women at a clinic in the southern suburbs.

Al-Manar television said the quarrel erupted before noon when investigators "surprisingly" entered the women's clinic of physician Iman Sharara in Beirut's southern suburbs.

It gave no other details.

LBC television station, however, said the squabble developed when demonstrators, about 150 women, stormed the clinic where two STL investigators and an interpreter were.

It said one of the women demonstrators was able to snatch a briefcase containing some documents.

NBN TV said the STL Investigation team forced its way into the women's clinic in the southern suburbs, adding that security forces intervened to prevent further escalation.