Thirty rally participants were wounded Saturday afternoon in stone attacks as returning from a rally in Beirut's Martyrs Square to mark the fourth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, the Voice of Lebanon radio reported.
Several March 14 supporters were among the wounded, who were attacked by stones in west Beirut areas of Bshara Khoury and Zokak el Blat as heading back home from the rally, said the radio, adding that the attackers used sticks, rocks, daggers and fired arms in their assault, Xinhua reported.
Meanwhile, witnesses told Xinhua that convoys of March 14 pro- government supporters toured the airport road in the southern suburbs, shouting slogans against Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah, which prompted a respond by Hezbollah supporters who beat them up and crashed down their cars.
The wounded were evacuated to hospitals in west and east suburbs of Beirut.
Pro-government Future TV station, owned by majority leader Saad Hariri, however, said that March 14 rally participants were attacked in Beirut streets.
Earlier Saturday, hundreds of thousands supporters flocked to Martyrs Square to mark the fourth anniversary of Hariri's assassination.
Demonstrators carried Lebanese flags and party flags of Hariri' s Future movement (al-Mustaqbal) and some held pictures of Hariri and his son and political heir Saad Hariri.
They lashed out at Syria and the Lebanese opposition, and campaigned for the upcoming parliamentary elections in June.
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