Two Lebanese Red Cross workers have been killed outside a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling Islamist fighters, officials have said.

The pair were evacuating civilians when they were hit by either machine gun or shell fire from the Nahr al-Bared camp...

...Earlier, the army fired artillery shells at militants from Fatah al-Islam entrenched in the camp near Tripoli...

The state-run National News Agency named the workers as Boulos Maamari and Haitham Suleiman. A third Red Cross worker was critically injured, the agency said...

...In a separate incident, a member of a Muslim clerics' delegation trying to broker a deal between Lebanon's government and Fatah al-Islam was injured.

Sheikh Mohammed al-Hajj was shot in the leg by a sniper after entering Nahr al-Bared to hold talks with the group...