The wife of an Islamist leader slain by the Lebanese Army Monday identified his body in a Lebanese government hospital in this northern port city.

The body of Shaker al-Abssi was among those recovered from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp Sunday after Lebanese troops seized full control of the settlement. At least 37 bodies were recovered from the camp, ending more than three months of conflict with the Sunni Muslim extremist group Fatah al-Islam.

Abssi's wife, who was accompanied by Palestinian clerics, was seen leaving the hospital in tears.

Meanwhile, a Lebanese Army source said that Fatah al-Islam spokesman Abu Salim Taha was also killed Monday morning in the Abedeh area north of the camp.

Taha was shot by troops in a fishing area, the source area.

Lebanese Army troops were still imposing a tight cordon around the camp on Monday, preventing journalists from entering.

Security forces were patrolling the area, searching orchards and fields, while helicopters hovered overhead in a hunt for any militant who may have managed to escape from the camp on Sunday. Naval boats are also patrolling the sea.

On Sunday, the army foiled an escape attempt by militants, killing at least 37 and capturing more than 20.

Most of the camp's 40,000 residents fled to a nearby Palestinian refugee camp in the early days of the battle, which erupted on May 20 when the army said Fatah al-Islam has attacked its positions near the camp and in Tripoli.

Fatah al-Islam split from the Syrian-backed group Fatah Uprising last year. It says it shares Al Qaeda's ideology but has no organizational ties with them. The hardline Sunni Islamist group includes Lebanese, Saudi, Algerian and Syrian fighters.