President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday
Lebanon faced a catastrophe if
protesters did not go home, igniting a new wave of demonstrations during which a protester was shot and killed after an altercation with Lebanese soldiers near Beirut.
The
shooting in Khaldeh south of Beirut was the first of its kind in nearly four weeks of nationwide
protests against Lebanon's ruling elite, escalating tensions in a country mired in deep political and economic crisis.
The man who was killed was a member of the political party led by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a civil war adversary of Aoun.