‘Palestinian Teenager Martyr in Lebanon blast’
31 October, 2010 08:42
A Palestinian teenager has been killed and four other people left injured in a grenade explosion in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a report says.
“Thirteen-year-old Muhammed Ashkar died in hospital of injuries sustained when a hand grenade exploded outside a scrap metal yard in the Beddawi camp,” five kilometers (three miles) north of the port city of Tripoli, Shiite News  reported an unnamed Palestinian source as saying on Friday.
“We believe the owner of the yard was shifting through his metal, found the grenade and tossed it outside where the children were standing,” he added.
Among the injured were a 14-year-old boy in critical condition and a 23-year-old woman, the source went on to say.
Palestinian security forces arrested the owner and are holding him for questioning, he further explained.
The Lebanese army does not enter the country’s 12 camps, leaving security inside in the hands of Palestinians.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees estimates that Lebanon today houses 400,000 Palestinians, while Lebanese officials estimate a figure of 300,000.
The majority of the Palestinian refugees live in the overpopulated camps in Lebanon.
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