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| 31/05/2008 Lebanese soldiers shot dead a man carrying a hand grenade outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh on Saturday, an army spokesman said. "The man was carrying a hand grenade and we are also investigating whether the belt he was wearing contained an explosives charge," the spokesman said, refusing to provide any further details.
The incident came just hours after a Lebanese soldier was killed in a blast at an army intelligence post near the northern city of Tripoli and another explosive device was defused, a security official said. He said it was unclear what caused the 5:00 am (0200 GMT) explosion in the Abdeh area near the northern outskirts of the city.
The army named the martyr as Ussama Hassan, saying he was charged with keeping the peace in the Abdeh area. The security official said the army found another device inside the post primed and ready to detonate but that explosives experts defused it before it went off.
Investigators are trying to determine when the explosives were planted, the official said. The blast and the shooting came as Lebanon seeks to form a new government of national unity following a deal to end an 18-month political crisis that brought the country to the brink of civil war. | 
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