Islamist militants on Saturday unleashed a salvo of rockets at locations around a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The report said that two out of three Katyusha rockets, fired by militants of Fatah al-Islam group from the largely ruined camp of Nahr al-Bared, crashed into the coastal town of Kfar Milki but no one was hurt.
Another unexploded rocket fell near a bridge some one kilometer from the camp, located north of the city of Tripoli, it added.
Meanwhile, Lebanese troops pounded the strongholds of the gunmen in the camp with artillery and plumes of smoke billowed over the targeted locations, said the report.
The Lebanese troops advanced deep into the camp from its eastern side following fierce clashes with the gunmen on its alleyways, it added.
On Friday, Fatah al-Islam militants fired 18 Katyusha-type rockets, most of which crashed into fields several kilometers to the northeast and south of the camp without causing casualties.
The troops and the gunmen engaged in house-to-house battles among badly damaged buildings, which had been repeatedly pounded since the flare-up of the fighting.
The Lebanese army have been battling with the militants of Fatah al-Islam holed up in the Nahr al-Bared camp since May 20. The bloodiest internal violence since the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war has killed some 200 people.
The Lebanese government lists Fatah al-Islam as a terrorist network aimed at destabilizing Lebanon.
Source: Xinhua
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