Four Jews have been killed and 36 people, most of them Jews, have been seriously injured, about half of them being in a hopeless condition, without any chance of recovery, as the result of an explosion in the Jewish second-hand market in Budapest.
While a quantity of scrap iron was being unloaded in the market, an army grenade contained in the consignment exploded. Four Jews standing near, Leopold Mandl, Bela Geiger, Samuel Breitner and Oscar Magor were blown to pieces. There are eleven Jewish women among the seriously injured.
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