Beirut - Two Red Cross workers were killed on Monday at the entrance of Nahr al Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, Red cross sources said. "The two Red Cross workers were killed at a post that was established at the entrance of the camp to facilitate their work in evacuating wounded and elderly Palestinians from inside the camp," the source said.
He said it was not clear if they were shot by gunfire or a shell that had fallen on their car from the shelling.
Lebanese troops continued Monday their battle against Islamist militiamen at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon by pounding areas in the northern and eastern sector of the camp.
Sources inside the camp said that a Palestinian clergyman, Sheikh Ahmed al Haj, who has been negotiating between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese government has also been slightly wounded while he was holding talks with Fatah al-Islam officials.
Earlier, Lebanese army artillery bombarded the northern and eastern sectors of Nahr al-Bared where the army had been besieging the Islamist militia Fatah al-Islam since fighting first erupted on May 20.
Monday's shooting came after a weekend of fierce gunbattles that left 17 people dead, among them 11 soldiers, in the deadliest internal feuding since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
The death toll includes 59 soldiers and 50 members of Fatah al- Islam, a shadowy Al-Qaeda-inspired Sunni Muslim militia which first emerged in Lebanon late last year.
The weekend casualties came after the army staged an operation to storm Fatah al-Islam positions inside the camp on the shores of the Mediterranean in northern Lebanon.
By longstanding convention the army does not enter the country's 12 refugee camps, leaving internal security to Palestinian militants.
