 A Fatah military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion on Tuesday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinain official had earlier said he had been killed. Talal al-Asmar "had surgery to the feet legs and is in stable condition," doctor Yehiya Shehab of the Labib Medical Centre in the southern port city of Sidon, outside Ain el-Helweh camp, told AFP.
Asmar was still scheduled to have eye surgery, the doctor added.
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Earlier a Palestinian official had said that Asmar, who belongs to the Fatah faction loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, had been killed in a bomb attack in the sprawling camp. That report was later contradicted by another Palestinian official who said that Asmar was "seriously wounded in the head and the body" and "in critical condition" after undergoing surgery.
According to Palestinian officials the bomb that targeted Asmar was activated by remote control and exploded outside a Fatah office in Ain el-Helweh. |