BEIRUT: An exchange of gunfire around dawn Tuesday between rival drug gangs near the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut's southern suburbs left two wounded, security sources told The Daily Star.

The sources said that two Palestinian gangs engaged in clashes in Shatila’s Farhat neighborhood, causing tensions to soar in the camp.

The sources identified the two wounded Palestinian men as Maher Badran and Abdul Kader Mohammad Abu Hajal.

The Higher Palestinian Security Committee, which supervises the status of Palestinian camps in Lebanon, recently deployed joint elite forces in Sidon’s Mieh Mieh and Ain al-Hilweh camps, with the Beirut refugee camps of Burj al-Barajneh and Shatila next in line for increased security measures.

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