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3 Jews Reported Killed, 3 Wounded in Baghdad Bombing

July 16, 1939
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The Hebrew newspaper Davar, in a dispatch from Beirut, reported today that three Jews were killed and three others wounded in a bombing of a Jewish club at Baghdad.

The dispatch said five Arab youths were arrested as suspects and the Iraq Government forbade publication of the incident. The bombing was attributed to members of the Arab Committee for Palestine.

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