The World - News from July 29, 1985
The Shia Muslims’ Amal movement said its guerrillas killed two pro-Israeli militiamen and captured five in a gunfight in Israel’s “security zone” in southern Lebanon. Amal officials in Sidon said their guerrillas stormed and captured a position of the Israeli-backed “home guard” in the village of Braachit. The U.N. peacekeeping force in the region confirmed that at least one militiaman was killed.
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