A man, Fawaz el-Samman, who was wounded during fierce confrontations in Tripoli a day earlier succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday, media reports said.

Cautious calm prevailed in the city amid heavy deployment of army troops and security forces, said the National News Agency.

The Lebanese Army issued a statement on Tuesday against the backdrop of Tripoli’s confrontations with protesters, saying 54 of its troops including 6 officers were injured in the night clashes.

A group of men lobbed a lighting molotov cocktail at the facade of a bank in the Beirut neighborhood of Ras el-Nabaa at dawn, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Former PM Najib Miqati on Tuesday held telephone talks with Army chief Maj. Gen. Joseph Aoun after the night clashes in the northern Tripoli between protesters and the Lebanese army, LBCI said.

Fierce confrontations erupted Monday evening in the northern city of Tripoli as angry anti-government protesters vandalized the facades of several banks and torched an army vehicle.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea announced Monday that he does not regret nominating President Michel Aoun for the presidency prior to his election and voiced caution over the possibility of toppling Hassan Diab's government.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon on Monday condemned the latest violent attacks against some banks and “the personal threats that targeted some banks' chairmen and board members.”

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Monday confirmed that he will address the Lebanese on Wednesday about the country's dire financial crisis.

President Michel Aoun announced Monday that “any confrontation against corruption cannot be temporary, partial or selective” so that corrupts do not “seek the protection of religious or political leaders to dodge accountability.”

Scattered anti-government protests broke out in several parts of Lebanon on Monday amid a crash in the local currency and a surge in food prices, leading to road closures that prevented medical teams from setting out from Beirut to conduct coronavirus tests across the country.

The Health Ministry said its teams would try again on Tuesday, urging protesters to let the paramedics work to evaluate the spread of the virus in the tiny country of 5 million people.