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Fatah official killed in Lebanon | Fatah official killed in Lebanon |
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The deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon has been killed in a bombing, security officials say. | |
Kamal Medhat of the Fatah faction died in a blast by Mieh Mieh refugee camp, near Lebanon's city of Sidon, they say. | |
Lebanon's crowded and poorly developed camps, housing families expelled from what became Israel in 1948, are prone to violent unrest and insecurity. | |
Two people were killed in a gun battle in Mieh Mieh camp on Saturday. | Two people were killed in a gun battle in Mieh Mieh camp on Saturday. |
The PLO's chief representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, was also reported to have been visiting the camp on Monday but not to have been hit by the blast. | |
Initial reports said at least three of Mr Medhat's bodyguards had been killed. | |
A Fatah spokesman in the West Bank was quoted as calling the killing an "assassination". | |