BEIRUT // Lebanese security officials say gunmen have ambushed and killed a Palestinian official in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
They say Talal Al Urduni, a senior security official with the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement, died on Saturday in a hail of gunfire along with his bodyguard after they were intercepted by the gunmen near the Nidaa hospital in a neighbourhood of the camp.
Lebanese security officials say religious extremists in the camp were likely behind the assassination Saturday.
The assassination triggered heavy gunfire inside the camp, which could be heart in the southern port of Sidon.
Assassinations are common in Ein El Hilweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp and a haven for militants and fugitives.
* Associated Press
