Twenty-eight refugees, among them 10 Jews, were arrested today then 500 police, accompanied by three tanks, raided the Bari refugee transit camp. No reason was given for the detention of the Jews. The 18 others, Greeks and Yugoslavs, are believed to be political offenders.
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