The World : 12 Die in Beirut Camp Clash
Mortar shells and rockets whizzed through two refugee camps in Beirut, leaving 12 people dead and 29 wounded as rival Palestinian groups fought for control of the area. Police said the new casualties brought the toll to 31 killed and 130 wounded since the latest clashes at the Chatilla and Borj el Brajne camps broke out last week between Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization and the breakaway Fatah-Uprising. A police spokesman said Fatah-Uprising forces tried but failed to fight their way into the camps. In southeast Lebanon, Israeli soldiers killed two Lebanese guerrillas in an ambush, police said.
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