Five militants blow themselves up killing child in Lebanon

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Five militants blow themselves up killing child in Lebanon

AFP, Beirut Friday, 30 June 2017

A child was killed and seven Lebanese soldiers wounded on Friday when five militants blew themselves up and a sixth threw a grenade during raids on two refugee camps near the Syrian border, the army said.

The civil war, which has raged in Syria since March 2011, has triggered an exodus of more than 1.1 million refugees into neighboring Lebanon and has repeatedly spilt over. Four of the suicide bombers struck in the Al-Nur camp near the border town of Arsal, the army said.

A young girl, whose parents are both refugees, was killed and three soldiers wounded, the army said. A medical source in the provincial capital Baalbek said the girl was two and a half years old. Troops recovered four explosive devices.

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President Michel Aoun on Friday lamented the fact that encampments for Syrian refugees in Lebanon are turning into military camps and a safe haven for militants planning terror attacks against the country's troops and citizens.

“Displaced Syrian encampments have turned into military camps rather than places for displaced people,” said the President.

Aoun's comments came ahead of suicide attacks on Friday at dawn in Lebanon that killed a child and wounded seven troops.

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