Two heavily armed Arab terrorists were arrested during a routine police check of the Petach Tikva orange groves Wednesday where large numbers of Arab worker from northern Sinai are employed. Police detained 30 other Arabs for questioning. The terrorists were spotted by a civil defense patrolman who summoned re-enforcements. The pair was in possession of a Karl Gustav submachine gun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several magazines of bullets. A search of the groves yielded no other weapons.
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