U.N. Warns Against Endangering Climate of Calm in Lebanon

U.N. Warns Against Endangering Climate of Calm in Lebanon

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday slammed the "terrorist" roadside bombing that killed a senior Palestinian official outside a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

"The secretary-general condemns the terrorist attack today that killed Mr. Kamal Medhat, the deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, and several of his bodyguards," his press office said in a statement.

Ban voiced hope that "the perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice promptly."

"Such actions must not be allowed to endanger the climate of calm that currently prevails in Lebanon," he added.

Medhat and three others were traveling in a convoy when the bomb exploded at the entrance of the Miyeh Miyeh camp near the coastal city of Sidon.

Medhat, who was a close aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is the highest ranking Palestinian official killed in Lebanon since the PLO was forced to pull out of the country in 1982 after the Israeli invasion.