The World - News from June 27, 1988
A bomb destroyed a Palestinian leader’s car and killed his two young sons in southern Lebanon while dissident Palestinian guerrillas clashed in Beirut refugee camps with supporters of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization. Police said eight people were killed and 14 wounded as Arafat’s loyalists and Syrian-backed dissidents of Abu Moussa’s Fatah-Uprising fought with mortars and rockets in the Chatilla and Borj el Brajne shantytowns. In the Ein el Hilwa camp outside Sidon, the two sons of Mohammed Mrad, a central committee member of the Moscow-oriented Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, were killed by the car bomb, police reported. They said Ali, 13, and Mazen, 6, died when Ali attempted to start his father’s car.
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