LEBANON: AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS KILLED AFTER A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODES NEAR AN ARMY POST AT COUNTRY'S LARGEST PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP

Record ID: 358555

  • Title: LEBANON: AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS KILLED AFTER A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODES NEAR AN ARMY POST AT COUNTRY'S LARGEST PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP
  • Date: 29th December 2001
  • Summary: (W4) AIN EL-HILWEH, LEBANON (DECEMBER 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF STREET WHERE BLAST HAPPENED/ PULL OUT TO CAR CHARRED BY BLAST IMPACT 0.10 2. CLOSE UP OF SHOE ON GROUND/ BLOODSTAIN / TILT UP TO VAN WITH BLOODSTAIN ON CORNER 0.18 3. SV: BROOM AND CHARRED GROUND 0.24 4. VARIOUS CLOSE UPS OF CHARRED ROAD (2 SHOTS) 0
  • Embargoed: 13th January 2002 12:00
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  • Location: AIN EL-HILWEH, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA6VH5XB1CHAE7ZUVDCFFAWK1PV
  • Story Text: A powerful bomb exploded near an army post at Lebanon's
    largest Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, killing at least
    one person.


    An army official said the bomb which exploded on
    Saturday (December 29) had been planted in a rubbish dump
    close to a Lebanese army checkpoint by the entrance to the Ain
    El-Hilweh camp near the southern port city of Sidon. It killed
    a sanitation worker collecting refuse there.

    Witnesses said the army closed entrances to the camp and
    investigators began combing the area where the blast occurred.

    A Lebanese military court last month charged two men it
    called members of an obscure Palestinian Islamist group with
    throwing hand grenades at Lebanese army positions at the
    outskirts of Ain el-Hilweh.

    Lebanese security forces have threatened to tighten
    security at the camp after the United States placed the group,
    Osbat al-Ansar, on a list of organisations whose assets it
    wants frozen for suspected links to Osama bin Laden, top U.S.

    suspect in the September 11 suicide attacks on U.S. cities.

    The group denies any such links, and camp residents are
    sceptical that it has significant influence or assets inside
    Lebanon or abroad.

    About 350,000 Palestinian refugees are registered as
    residents of Lebanon's camps. Denied the right to work legally
    or own property, they have grown increasingly restive over the
    course of the 15-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israel

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