RAMALLAH, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- An Islamic Jihad (Holy War) militant was killed by Israeli troops in a village near the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday morning, Palestinian security sources said.

    Israel's Ha'aretz daily said the man was believed to have played a central role in the suicide bombing attack against a nightclub in Tel Aviv last month.

    The Israeli army incurred in the early hours into the village of Nazlat al-Wusta near Tulkarem and surrounded a two-story building where Mohamed Abu Khazna, a 25-year-old Jihad militant was hiding.

    As Khazna refused to surrender, Israeli soldiers threw grenades at the building and then an Israeli army bulldozer demolished the house, killing the man inside, Israel's Army Radio reported.

    Witnesses said the man's body was later found in the ruins.

    Muayyed Hussein, governor of the nearby village of Baka al-Sharkiya, confirmed the man's death, but added that he was not sure if the man was a Jihad militant.

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