Two Israeli youths were killed and another teen-ager moderately hurt when a roof collapsed in a school gymnasium in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. Rescuers worked for hours before extracting the bodies of the two students, Lior Caballo and Shlomi Toledo, from the rubble. According to witnesses, a group of students were playing basketball when the roof collapsed. Investigators are examining whether the collapse had any connection with renovation work being done on the building.
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