An explosion in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Helweh near the city of Sidon in south Lebanon killed 2 people and wounded one according to the Lebanese National News Agency . The explosion was caused by a bomb. Shehadah Jawhar , one of the leaders of Jund el-Sham is reportedly one of the victims . Jund el-Sham launched an attack against the Lebanese army about 2 weeks ago to weaken the army in its attack on the Fatah al islam terrorists holed in the Nahr el-Bared camp.
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The blast was apparently caused by the explosion of an oxygen canister , security sources said and not by a bomb as reported earlier.
"Hey Mahmoud, this valve is sticky!"
"Whack it with that hammer. I do it all the time!" |
They said the explosion happened in a tire shop in the Taamir area at the entrance of Ein al-Helweh camp. Taamir is the stronghold of a small Islamist militant group, Jund al-Sham ( which translates into 'Soldiers of Damascus')
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SIDON: A flawed attempt by Jund al-Sham militants to build a bomb was behind a fatal explosion Monday in a tire-repair shop in the Taamir neighborhood outside Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, a Lebanese security report said on Tuesday. | Your standard "work accident" |
Lebanese security officials said the Monday afternoon blast, which killed two Palestinians and wounded three, occurred as Jund al-Sham members were extracting TNT from a 107-millimeter shell. "Dammit, the threads on the fuse are stripped"
"Here, heat it with this torch" |
Among those wounded was a leader of Jund al-Sham, Shehadeh Jawhar. Residents of Ain al-Hilweh said that the two dead men were the shop owner - Jawhar's uncle - and his nephew. | The family that builds bombs together....well, you know. They're dead, Jim |
Also wounded was a Lebanese man, Mohammad Ghuneim, whose brother, Shadi, has been held for months in Saudi Arabia for suspected links with Al-Qaeda, security officials said. |