The World - News from Feb. 27, 1986
A Peugeot packed with TNT blew up in front of Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp at Sidon, killing the driver and wounding 10 people. The explosion at the entrance to the Ein el Hilwa camp, the home to 26,000 U.N.-registered refugees, occurred just 10 minutes before hundreds of Palestinians were to assemble to commemorate the 1975 assassination of Marouf Saad, who was a member of Parliament from Sidon. The blast flattened six houses, a pharmacy and four parked cars on the southern fringe of Sidon. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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