The army spokes-man announced today that two Israeli soldiers were killed and four wounded in a terrorist ambush in a village east of Beirut last night. The unit to which the men belonged returned the fire and searched the area.
The spokesman said that there were two clashes with terrorists this morning, with no casualties to the Israelis. He said that a band of terrorists tried to penetrate the Israeli lines on the eastern sector this morning. Two terrorists were killed and two captured, the spokesman said.
In another encounter with a terrorist group east of Sidon this morning, one PLO man was killed and three others were captured.
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