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Fatah official killed in Lebanon Fatah official killed in Lebanon
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A senior representative of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon has been killed in a bombing, security officials say. The deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon has been killed in a bombing, security officials say.
Officials say Kamal Medhat of the Fatah faction died in a blast outside Mieh Mieh refugee camp near Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon. 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. 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.
Mr Medhat was the deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon. 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.
The chief representative, Abbas Zaki, was also reported to have been visiting the camp but not to have been hit by the blast. Initial reports said at least three of Mr Medhat's bodyguards had been killed.
Initial reports said at least three of the Fatah official's bodyguards had been killed. A Fatah spokesman in the West Bank was quoted as calling the killing an "assassination".
Details of Monday's incident are still coming in.