By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Two soldiers have died during gunbattles with Islamic extremists in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a senior military official said Sunday.
One of the soldiers was killed Saturday night while the second died Sunday of wounds he received in fighting on Saturday inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared near the northern port city of Tripoli.
The official said the deaths brought to 138 the number of Lebanese soldiers killed since fighting between the army and Fatah Islam militants broke out on May 20. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity according to military regulations.
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