A man killed outside of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon before detonating a bomb was probably a Saudi national, officials say. The would-be suicide bomber was shot dead last month outside of Ain al-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, near Sidon. The incident "during which a man, probably of Saudi nationality, was killed has forced us to take strict and urgent security measures," Sultan Abul Aynan, who heads the Fatah faction in Lebanon, was quoted by AFP as saying Monday. "After the death of the suicide bomber, we arrested another young man of Saudi nationality who had entered the camp a few days earlier," the official added. "Fatah's military wing has formed a force of 500 armed men to monitor security in Ain al-Helweh," he said. The man was killed by Lebanese troops in May as he tried to detonate his explosive charges.
The army identified the would-be bomber as a 28-year-old
Palestinian called Mahmud al-Ahmad Yassin but Palestinian officials said that the man was carrying false identity papers marked with the logo of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).