The Mt. Carmel RAF radar station at Haifa was heavily damaged this morning when an armed band of terrorists set off an explosion which wrecked the building and the antenna mast.
Two British non-commissioned officers were seriously injured and six other soldiers were slightly hurt as the result of the blast, an official communique said. The attackers suffered no casualties. The communique reports that the charge was placed at 3:30 a.m. As the attackers were withdrawing, British troops opened fire, but apparently hit no one.
This was the second attempt to destroy the station, which is used by the British to detect ships landing visaless immigrants. Six weeks ago the station received an anonymous telephone call warning troops to leave the building because it was mined. In the resulting search a quantity of explosives, already fused, was discovered.
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