An army spokesman said tonight that security services had recently arrested members of five terrorist groups on the West Bank and that one of the scores of detained suspects led police to a completed bomb which the suspect had planned to place at the densely inhabited Yad Eliyahu quarter in southeast Tel Aviv the next morning. The police said the arrests spared Tel Aviv from still another deadly terrorist act like the one last Thursday which killed one person and injured 50 in the Carmel market.
The spokesman said a series of recent acts of terror and sabotage had been attributed to some of the detainees. He said large quantities of explosives, pistols, hand grenades and detonators, as well as electric activating devices were found in the raids. The investigation of the terrorist groups is continuing.
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