A senior representative of Palestinian refugees 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.
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.
Mr Medhat was the deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon.
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 the Fatah official’s bodyguards had been killed.
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