The Lebanese army on Monday found six more bodies of Fatah al-Islam members, bringing to 38 the total number of killed militants during Sunday's camp fighting, local Naharnet news website reported.
The bodies were found deserted in the northern Lebanese refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, said the report, adding that the army also captured four militants nearby, raising to 24 the number of militants captured since Sunday.
Sunday's battle between Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam was deemed the last one after which Prime Minister Fouad Seniora declared "the country's biggest and historic victory over terrorists" in the largely devastated Nahr al-Bared camp, some 12 km north of the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Meanwhile, unidentified assailants opened fire at an army patrol from a deserted building near Nahr al-Bared, said the report, citing reliable sources as saying that the patrol besieged the building and a clash was underway with the gunmen.
Identities of the gunmen couldn't be immediately verified. It was reported that 10 Fatah al-Islam militants managed to escape the battle Sunday and that security agencies had launched a nationwide manhunt.
On Sunday, the Lebanese army totally took control of Nahr al- Bared camp after fighting the Fatah al-Islam militants holed up there for over three months.
It was the bloodiest internal violence since the Lebanese 1975- 1990 civil war, and up to 300 people including more than 150 army soldiers were killed during the fighting.
Source: Xinhua
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