Black plumes of smoke poured from a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli on Tuesday as members of an Islamic militant group battled the Lebanese army for a third day.The crack of small-arms fire echoed through the neighborhoods surrounding the overcrowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, home to about 30,000 Palestinians.
The fighting was sparked early Sunday when Lebanese internal security forces raided a building in a neighborhood north of Tripoli, army sources said. Militants from Fatah al-Islam fired on the forces, who returned fire, triggering clashes in the vicinity of the camp.
A spokesman for the militants said they would keep on fighting.
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