Three Arabs arrested and held in the police station here last week as suspected infiltrators from the Gaza Strip escaped to Egyptian territory over the weekend after a jailbreak. Ten other prisoners, Arab and Jewish, who had also been in on the plot, were blocked by a guard with a revolver.
The jailbreak began shortly before 9 p. m. when a Jewish prisoner called in one of the two guards in the police station, which is about five miles north of the Gaza Strip, saying he needed a mattress. When the guard entered, the 13 prisoners jumped him, as well as the second guard who had come to help his colleague. The latter, however, managed to free himself from the prisoners’ grip and fire his revolver, blocking the escape of all but three of the prisoners.
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