Bomb Kills British Soldiers
KUALA LUMPUR,.August 12. A British officer and a British private Have been killed and seven British soldiers and a Gurkha wounded in a bombing accident. Army sources said today.
The accident is understood to have happened in Negri Sembilan when a Royal Air Force aircraft attacking terrorist hide-outs released a bomb prematurely. The bomb exploded among a group of soldiers who were waiting to carry out a follow up operation.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27736, 13 August 1955, Page 7
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