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The plague of two-wheeled crime claimed the life of a man in Burj Hammoud on Thursday, when a shootout broke out between two thieves and a would-be crime-fighter. The incident took place when two men on motorcycles snatched the purse of a woman identified as Gretta George Abu Sleiman, according to security sources.

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