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Blasts at Militant's Gaza Home Kills 3 - Witnesses 49 minutes ago

GAZA (Reuters) - A series of explosions tore through the home of a Palestinian Hamas militant in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding three, hospital officials and witnesses said.

The cause of the blasts, which rocked a densely populated residential neighborhood of Palestinian-ruled Gaza City, was not immediately known.

The two-story home belongs to Salah Nassar, a Hamas member whose brother, Wael Nassar, is a senior official in the military wing of the Islamic militant group, local residents said.

Salah Nassar survived the explosions but was burned along with his father. His brother was not in the house at the time.

"We heard two big explosions inside the building on the first floor followed by a series of explosions," one witness told Reuters.

Police said they were investigating the cause of the blasts, which engulfed the house in flames.

Hamas members accosted news cameramen filming at the scene. A Reuters cameraman was struck and his camera was seized and broken.

Hamas is the main group behind a series of suicide bombings that have killed scores of Israelis since the start of a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in September 2000.

[source: seen on Lucciane, posted there by dreadnought. link to story is: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=586&e=1&cid=586&u=/nm/20021031/wl_nm/mideast_explosion_dc ]

I suspect it was a bomb making project gone wrong. Or rather, from our point of view, right.

-- Anonymous, October 31, 2002

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"A work-related accident," as the Israelis so aptly put it.

-- Anonymous, October 31, 2002