| 12/06/2008 A gunman was killed and a Lebanese army officer wounded in a shootout near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in south Lebanon.
Security sources said the incident occurred late Wednesday when three unidentified assailants in a white Renault Rapid opened fire on the soldiers as they tried to make their way through an army checkpoint at the western entrance to the camp.
They said army troops returned fire wounding one gunman, who died of his wounds soon aferwards. The second gunman was arrested while the third fled, the sources said.
"The vehicle drove past the checkpoint and when troops fired warning shots, they were shot at and an exchange of fire developed," one reporter said.
The shootout came almost two weeks after a would-be suicide bomber was shot and killed by Lebanese soldiers as he tried to detonate an explosives belt at a checkpoint on the edge of Ain al-Hilweh. | 
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