More than 110 persons were detained for questioning today following an explosion that wrecked a bus in downtown Haifa only seconds after the passengers and driver evacuated the vehicle. Heavy casualties were averted only because passengers spotted a suspicious looking parcel on the bus which was incoming from Western Galilee. Three persons suffered minor injuries from flying splinters. The bus had stopped at several Arab villages that were the scene of hostile activities recently. Police disclosed that an explosive charge was discovered aboard another bus that arrived from Western Galilee 20 minute earlier. It was removed and safely dismantled. A terrorist was killed in the Golan Heights this morning by explosives he was trying to plant on the Israeli side of the cease-fire line. The detonation attracted an Israeli patrol which identified the body as an infiltrator from Syria.
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