NAHR AL-BARED (AFP) -- Lebanese troops have detained a Saudi militant who gave himself up after being spotted hiding in a field near a refugee camp where a three-month siege ended last week, a military source said on Sunday.

""The Saudi was captured at around 11 pm (2000 GMT) on Saturday in the village of Nabi Kzayber,"" some two kilometers (just over a mile) from the Nahr al-Bared camp where Islamist militants put up a ferocious resistance to the army siege, the source said.
Terrified of being lynched by the villagers who had spotted him, the unarmed and exhausted 24-year-old fled to the home of a Muslim cleric begging to be handed over to the army. The cleric called in the military.
Troops have launched intensive search operations around Nahr al-Bared since the battle ended on September 2 with a desperate breakout attempt by the remaining militants.
Soldiers have killed at least four militants who managed to break through army lines and captured around a dozen more, according to an AFP count.
On Sunday, three military helicopters were focusing their search on a mountainous area between 10 and 50 kilometers (between six and 30 miles) north of the camp, an AFP correspondent said.
A senior mainstream Palestinian official said on July 2 that a total of 42 Saudis were fighting in the ranks of the Fatah al-Islam group led by Palestinian Shaker Al-Abssi.
He said of those, half had already been killed or surrendered and the following week the Lebanese authorities confirmed they had recovered the bodies of 10 Saudis.
The army has said that in all it has killed at least 222 militants. It lost 163 troops during the siege