The Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in southern Lebanon died on Friday of wounds from a car bombing that also killed his brother, security officials said. The group blamed Israeli intelligence for the killings.
Mahmoud Majzoub, a member of the group’s policy-making Shura Council body and its leader in Sidon, 40km south of Beirut, was walking with his brother Nidal near the central square of this coastal city, when a parked car was detonated by remote control, security officials said.
Majzoub survived the explosion but died during surgery.
His brother Nidal was instantly killed, said the security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release the information. – Sapa-AP