A booby-trapped videocassette blew up at the Fatma Crossing between northern Israel and Lebanon, wounding three Israelis and three Lebanese citizens. Israeli authorities alerted a police bomb expert about the suspicious object, which exploded while he was examining it. Among the wounded at the site near the Israeli town of Metulla was the Lebanese man carrying the videocassete.
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