Three Jewish women and a child of three have been killed and ten Jewish women have been so injured that there is no hope of their recovery by a boiler explosion at the Mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in the town of Horodenko, in Eastern Galicia, which occurred on the eve of the Sabbath. There were 20 women in the Mikvah at the time. The boiler attendant was killed outright. The explosion, it is stated, was due to a defect in the construction of the boiler.
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