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by Nicolas Tohme  June 5 - NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (AFP) - Tensions remained high in Lebanon on Tuesday as government forces battled to crush Islamist militants around a Palestinian refugee camp and another bomb blast struck the capital. Fighters from the Al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al Islam militia responded with automatic weapons fire as the army pounded their positions overnight in the squalid Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, correspondents said.

A Red Cross convoy of ambulances and trucks loaded with medicine waited to enter the camp during a lull to supply the refugees left in Nahr al-Bared, estimated to number between 3,000 and 5,000 of its original 31,000 inhabitants. However, several fighters from the Sunni Muslim gang have turned themselves in, the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah said. "They surrendered on Monday and Tuesday to Fatah men in the Nahr al-Bared camp," said Fatah's number two in Lebanon, Khaled al-Aref. "We can confirm that men from Fatah al-Islam turned themselves in and handed over their weapons."

There was no immediate confirmation from the Arab militant group and a Lebanese army spokesman, too, could not confirm the surrenders."We have information that there were some elements which gave themselves up, but the army has not received any of them," he told AFP.