Gunmen kill soldier outside Lebanese refugee camp

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 23, 2007

A Lebanese soldier was killed Monday in a shootout with gunmen outside a Palestinian refugee camp in northern part of the country, a military official said.

The shootout started after an argument between troops manning a checkpoint outside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli and relatives of an ailing woman who died later at a hospital, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Posted on 27 April 2007 @ 15:32 GMT