MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti) - An explosion in
south Lebanon on Monday killed at least five people, including
a senior representative of Palestinian refugees, local media
reported.
The roadside bomb exploded near the Mieh Mieh Palestinian
refugee camp, outside the port city of Sidon.
New-TV said Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
official Kamal Medhat, from the Palestinian Fatah movement, was
killed in the explosion along with his four bodyguards. Medhat
was deputy to the PLO's chief representative in Lebanon, Abbas
Zaki.
The cause of the blast is being established.
Another two people, including a Fatah official, were
killed in a shooting at the Mieh Mieh camp on Saturday.
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