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Mar 23, 2009, 12:59 GMT

Blast kills PLO official in southern Lebanon (1st Lead)

Beirut - A Palestine Liberation Organisation official along with three of his bodyguards were killed Monday when a roadside bomb targeted his convoy near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Lebanese army and Palestinian sources said. Kamal Medhat, assistant to PLO representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki, was killed in the blast near the Miyeh Miyeh camp on the outskirts of the port city of Sidon. A Lebanese army source told the German Press Agency dpa that the blast hurled Medhat's car into a nearby valley, killing him and his bodyguards instantly. Kamal Medhat - otherwise known as Brigadier Kamal Naji - had been in charge over the past few years of the situation inside the Palestinian camp of Ain El Hilweh camp, biggest camp in southern Lebanon and which has witnessed several clashes between the mainstream Fatah movement and Hamas. There are some 367,000 Palestinian refugees living in 12 camps across Lebanon.

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