Security forces began searching last night for members of a terrorist gang believed responsible for a series of bombing incidents in East Jerusalem during the last few days. No injuries were reported and no arrests have been made so far although several persons were reportedly detained for questioning.
Police disclosed that a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Interior Ministry office on Nablus Road Thursday night. Two more fire bombs were thrown at a municipality- sponsored youth center on Salah Eddin Street Saturday evening. Security circles believe that the perpetrators are members of the same gang that tossed a Molotov cocktail into an Egged bus as it left the East Jerusalem terminal for Hadassah Hospital last month. Seventeen persons were interrogated at that time but all were released.
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