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Five members of Palestinian militant group killed in blast on Lebanese-Syrian border - security sources

(Corrects name of group to PFLP-General Command, which operates separately from PFLP)

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command militant group were killed in an overnight explosion in Lebanon, near the border with neighbouring Syria, two Lebanese security sources and one Palestinian security source told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Israeli military told Reuters it does not comment on reports in foreign media.

(This story has been corrected to change the name of the group to PFLP-General Command, which operates separately from PFLP, in paragraph 1)

(Reporting by Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily in Beirut; Additional reporting by Henriette Chacar in Jerusalem; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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