Assassination attempt against Palestinian official in Sidon

The Palestinian armed struggle official in Sidon, Lebanon Abu Ali Tanyous has escaped an assassination attempt by an explosive that went off at the entrance of his house in Sidon. The explosion resulted in wounding Tanyous's daughter (Amal, nine years old) and heavy material losses in various flats of the first floor of the building where all its windows glass were broken.

Lebanese security sources said that at 9.10 p.m. Friday evening a strong explosion shook the explosion area which adjoins the eastern side of Ein al-Helweh camp in Sidon and it was found out later that the explosion resulted from an explosive implanted at the door of the official of the Palestinian armed struggle group in Sidon. Tanyous was not at his house.

Units of the Lebanese army, the security interior forces and civil defense aids units and the Lebanese Red Cross arrived at the site of the explosion. People of the area were greatly terrified and went into the street to find out the matter while the security forces cordoned the site of the explosion.