Police and troops cordoned off the Givat Shaul quarter of Jerusalem today and conducted a house-to-house search after a land mine blew up an army vehicle just outside the city on the Jaffa road, killing two British soldiers and one officer.
Earlier, an unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up a British troop train near Benyamina, between Haifa and Tel Aviv. British authorities said they believed Jewish extremists were responsible.
A bomb exploded about the same time outside a house in the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem occupied by David Nashashibi, leader of the Arab opposition to the ex-Mufti. The explosion, caused by a mine buried on the Jerusalem-Hebron road, was laid to political opponents of Nashashibi, who was slightly injured.
The Palestine Government is preparing to transfer a number of the Cyprus deportees to the Athlit immigration clearance camp, after Oct. 14, when 1,200 persons are due to be released from Athlit under the Oct. 15-Nov. 14 immigration schedule of 1,500, the Tel Aviv newspaper Yedioth Achronoth said today.
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