Scotland Yard issued another warning Monday to postal and business offices to be on the alert for booby-trapped mail after two postal workers were injured at Frankfurt airport Saturday by letter bombs addressed to Israel. The West German airport reported that six more letter bombs were found in the same compartment that contained the two that exploded. All eight were addressed to Israel from the same West German town. Frankfurt authorities refused to disclose the sender’s address or the destination of the letters.
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