Reply #11: Intense fighting resumes around Lebanon siege camp (Sat) [View All]

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Intense fighting resumes around Lebanon siege camp 11 minutes ago



NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (AFP) - Fighting resumed between Lebanese troops and Islamists holed up in a northern refugee camp on Saturday, a day after the most intense exchanges of the two-week-old siege.

Soldiers were heavily pounding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the army is besieging fringe militant group Fatah al-Islam, while machinegune fire was heard from inside, an AFP correspondent said.

Smoke was seen billowing from above the centre and north of the camp.

The army said it lost three soldiers in the intense exchanges on Friday, while a Palestinian official inside the camp said at least eight militants were also killed.

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