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...robbery and were also alleged members of Fatah al-Islam. In the first day's intense gun battles on the streets of Tripoli and in the camp, some 50 people died. The violence spread south to the capital; a 10-kg bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 other people. The next day, another bomb rocked an affluent shopping district in a Sunni Muslim part of Beirut. The fighting quickly became the worst incident of internal violence in Lebanon since its long and bitter civil war ended...
...streets of Tripoli itself and nine miles north of the city in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, which is also headquarters of the Fatah al-Islam faction. The violence spread to Beirut late Sunday when a 22-pound bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 others...
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