Teenage militant shot dead in Lebanon camp ambush

A teenage militant linked to a radical armed group was shot dead in Lebanon's largest refugee camp on Wednesday, months after his brother was gunned down in a similar attack, camp sources said.
The sources said Mohammed Shreidi was shot dead in an overnight ambush on the road leading to his home in the Palestinian Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in south Lebanon.
They said Shreidi's death heightened tension in the camp where friction between Islamists and mainstream Palestinian factions has occasionally erupted into gun-battles.
Militants fired automatic weapons into the air in mourning after his death and patrolled some streets, but there were no clashes, witnesses said.
Camp sources said Shreidi, associated with the radical Osbat an-Nour group, had been accused last year of targeting Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in grenade and small bomb attacks.
They said Shreidi had tried to take over Osbat an-Nour after his brother, the group's leader Abdullah Shreidi, was gunned down in May and later died of his wounds.
Abdullah Shreidi's shooting led to a bloody turf war in the camp between Islamic militants and Fatah fighters in which seven people were killed and 24 wounded.