Top member of Islamist group wounded in Lebanon blast

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SIDON, Lebanon (AFP) — A top Islamist militant was critically wounded on Sunday in a blast near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh in south Lebanon which injured four others, a security official told AFP.

Imad Yassin, a senior member of the Jund al-Sham Islamist group, was wounded along with two of his bodyguards when a charge placed in a rubbish bin exploded in the Taameer Ain el-Helweh area outside the camp, the official said.

A woman and an eight-year-old girl were also slightly wounded in the blast which prompted several families to flee the area.

Tension was high inside the camp with fighters from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah faction deploying to prevent an escalation, an AFP correspondent reported.

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