A rocket bomb accidentally discharged from a Raf plane berthed at an airdrome near Petach Tikvah, last night destroyed a house in the nearby settlement of Kfar Sirkin, killing 84-year-old Nahum Katzman and seriously injuring two othere.
After an investigation at the village by RAF officers, British Air Headquarters in the Levant issued a statement here regretting the incident, and announcing that an inquiry had been launched.
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