Three youthful Israelis were killed and a fourth seriously wounded today by a mysterious explosion in a vacant house in the Zavdiel settlement in the Lachish area.
A major rain and windstorm lashing the area interfered with investigation of the affair, but first reports said that a suspicious parcel brought into the building was responsible for the blast, which wrecked the building and tore a huge crater in the ground below it. It was ascertained that the explosion was not the result of an attack from without.
The dead, all members of the Livni family, are: Israel, 18; Etzioni, 11, and Moshe, 9. The settlement was established in 1950, settled chiefly by Yemenite families, and is affiliated with the Agudas Israel movement.
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