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Article: Lebanese troops kill suspected suicide bomber near Palestinian camp
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- May 31, 2008
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Lebanese troops have foiled a terrorist suicide attack in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister-designate Fuad Saniora said Saturday.
Saniora's comments came a few hours after Lebanese troops shot and killed a Palestinian suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday.
A senior military official said a man wearing an explosive belt approached an army checkpoint just outside the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camp on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon.
The man, wearing an explosive belt of two kilograms of TNT and a kilogram of metal balls, tried to blow himself up inside an armored personnel carrier with the aim of killing as many soldiers as ...