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| Lebanon army seizes explosives during raid on camp shelter |
| 2007-07-26 |
| The Lebanese army on Tuesday continued to tighten the noose around the diehard Fatah al-Islam militants, pounding the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared with heavy artillery barrages. The army bombarded the remaining pockets of Islamists at the camp with long range artillery fire. Sources said troops occasionally fought fierce house-to-house battles with the militants. The state-run National News Agency ( NNA) said the Lebanese army on Tuesday also seized explosive materials as well as weapons, detonators and electronic devices during a raid on a shelter inside the camp on the outskirts of the northern port city of Tripoli. NNA said a number of militants were killed in the attack. NNA said troops also blocked most exits to a sanitary sewer system after they discovered that sewage pipes have been used as escape routes by the terrorists There was no word on casualties from Tuesday's fighting. NNA said the army's guns bombarded the remaining Islamists' pockets at the camp with long range artillery fire. |
| Posted by:Fred |