GAZA CITY, Oct 13, 2006 (AFP) - Four Palestinians were wounded late Thursday when armed men attacked and put fire to a union-run radio station linked to president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah movement, witnesses and medical officials said.

The assailants lobbed a hand grenade at the station's main entrance in the north of Gaza City before asking those inside to leave the building and putting fire to it.

Medical sources said that four people were slightly wounded in the explosion of the hand grenade.

The building was severely damaged in the blaze.

The incident came at a time of increased tensions between rival Palestinian factions.

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