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Lebanon army kills demonstrator
Soldiers have fired on Palestinian protesters in Lebanon, killing one person and injuring about 20, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
The Palestinians were trying to break through a checkpoint to get back to their homes in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
The camp has been the scene of six weeks of fighting between the army and Islamic militants.
Fighting at the camp and associated unrest has left 200 people dead.
This makes it Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
Witnesses said soldiers fired in the air above the heads of the demonstrators. When the crowd did not disperse, the troops fired automatic rifles at the protesters.
Lebanon has 12 refugee camps housing more than 350,000 Palestinians. They are people who fled or were forced to leave their homes when Israel was created in 1948, or their descendants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6254230.stm
Soldiers have fired on Palestinian protesters in Lebanon, killing one person and injuring about 20, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
The Palestinians were trying to break through a checkpoint to get back to their homes in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
The camp has been the scene of six weeks of fighting between the army and Islamic militants.
Fighting at the camp and associated unrest has left 200 people dead.
This makes it Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
Witnesses said soldiers fired in the air above the heads of the demonstrators. When the crowd did not disperse, the troops fired automatic rifles at the protesters.
Lebanon has 12 refugee camps housing more than 350,000 Palestinians. They are people who fled or were forced to leave their homes when Israel was created in 1948, or their descendants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6254230.stm