Crowds of mourners and gunmen carry the body of Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, a Sunni Muslim cleric, during his funeral at his hometown at Al Bireh, north Lebanon, yesterday.
Crowds of mourners and gunmen carry the body of Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, a Sunni Muslim cleric, during his funeral at his hometown at Al Bireh, north Lebanon, yesterday.

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