A reward for information leading to the arrest of deposed President ldi Amin of Uganda was offered today by the family of Dora Bloch. The elderly British-Israeli woman was killed in Kampala, Uganda after an Israeli commando team freed more than 100 hostages July 3 1976, including dozens of Israelis, who were being held by Palestinian terrorists of Entebbe Airport after they hijacked an Air France airliner In London, British MP Greville Janner, a close friend of the Bloch family, said the reword would be substantial, but he declined to give a figure.
Bend Bloch, Mrs. Bloch’s son, said he and his two brother were establishing a fund to encourage people to help in Amin’s capture. He said he planned to go to Uganda to find his mother’s body and bring it back for burial. At the time of her reported death. Amin claimed that Mrs. Bloch was among the freed hostages, but it is widely believed she was taken from her hospital bed in Kampala, where she was being treated for a throat ailment, and killed. Many people hold Amin personally responsible for her death.
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