A bomb killed a senior official in the Palestinian Fatah faction and four other people in southern Lebanon yesterday, security sources said.

Kamal Medhat, deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, was killed with his companions on a road near Mieh Mieh camp outside the southern city of Sidon.

The bomb, hidden under a manhole cover in the road, flipped one car off the road and badly damaged another. Television footage showed debris ablaze in a field.