One British soldier was killed today and four were wounded when a land mine placed by Arab terrorists exploded under a truck in which they were riding near the village of Ghussun, in Samaria. one Jewish colonist was killed and two others wounded last night when a Jewish watchman, Benjamin Nachum Mizrachi, 40, ran amok at Bethania, near Lake Tiberias. Mizrachi, who had been employed as a watchman for 19 years and had a good record, was arrested. Arieh Edelman, 16-year-old Jew wounded in Haifa on Wednesday, died this morning.
Two Arab customs guards were seriously wounded in a Skirmish at Samakh, on Lake Tiberias.
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