Reply #4: Twelve die as Lebanese army raids militant hideout [View All]

Source: Reuters

Twelve die as Lebanese army raids militant hideout
Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:17AM EDT

By Nazih Siddiq

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese troops killed seven
Islamist militants, most of them foreigners, in a raid on
their hideout in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday,
while sporadic battles shook a nearby Palestinian refugee
camp.

Security sources said one soldier was killed and 14 were
wounded during the 10-hour siege of an apartment building.
The militants killed a policeman, his two daughters, aged
4 and 8, and his father-in-law after using them as human
shields.

A police statement said the policeman and his daughters
were visiting the father-in-law who lived in the building
when the militants stormed their flat and seized them at
the start of the clashes. The militants later killed them,
it said.

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