Senior Fatah official killed in blast

An explosion in southern Lebanon killed Fatah official Medhat Kamal and three other people as they drove near the Mieh Mieh refugee camp.A top Palestinian official and three of his bodyguards were killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday at Mieh Mieh refugee camp near the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, officials and the army said. An army spokesman told AFP that the official, Kamal Medhat, was at the entrance of the camp in a two-vehicle convoy when a roadside bomb exploded killing him and three of his bodyguards. "The bomb was apparently hidden in a little shed on the side of the road and was detonated as Medhat's convoy drove by," he said. The force of the blast tore through the Mercedes in which Medhat was travelling and threw the car into a nearby field, witnesses said. Munir Maqdah, in charge of security at Lebanon's 12 refugee camps, said Mehdat and several bodyguards died in the blast."Kamal Medhat was killed along with ... his bodyguards when a roadside bomb exploded as his vehicle drove by, near the entrance to the camp and an army checkpoint," Maqdah said. Maqdah had earlier said that four bodyguards were killed. Medhat, in his 50s, was the deputy representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon. He was also a former intelligence chief for the mainstream Fatah movement in Lebanon.