Fighting continued at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon early today as the conflict between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants spread.
Gunbattles broke out last last night near the largest of the Palestinian refugee camps in the country, Ain al-Hilweh, outside Sidon.
The Sunni fighters are said to belong to a small faction, Jund al-Sham, who attacked the army hours after a Fatah al-Islam commander, Abu Riyadh, who had previously belonged to Jund al-Sham, was killed in Nahr al-Bared.
Two Lebanese soldiers and two militants were killed this morning before calm was restored. Eleven people were injured.
In the north of the country, Lebanese troops have encircled the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli, where Fatah al-Islam gunmen have been engaged in fighting for more than two weeks.
They have refused to surrender, but the fighting today was less intense than in the previous three days of army assaults on militant positions.
