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Press, 31 August 1984, Page 6

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Bomber crashes Production of the Bl bomber will continue pending an official review of a crash in which one crew member was killed and two others injured, a United States Air Force spokesman said yesterday. The SUS2OO million (SNZ4OO million) aircraft crashed on a test flight north east of Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Bl was designed to replace the 852 which first went into service 25 years ago. — Washington. Ugandan toll The Ugandan Opposition leader, Paul Ssemogerere, says half a million people have died in the country since 1980, the independent “Star” newspaper reports. It quoted Mr Ssemogerere as saying that the Government had never established an exact death toll, but that he had fresh information that put it at about half a million. — Kampala. Storm damage President Ferdinand Marcos has declared a state of calamity in provinces hit hard by departing tropical storm June, which has left at least 25 people reported dead and thousands displaced nationwide. The declaration covers 17 provinces, mostly in the northern Luzon regions. — Manila. Roadside death Two young children were led away screaming after they saw their father killed as he tried to change a punctured tyre on their car on the hard shoulder of a motorway. The children, aged five and six, saw their father hit by a van which dragged him 50m along the motorway. — London. Factory explosion At least eight employees of a fireworks factory in Agarpara, eastern India, were burnt to death after explosions ripped through the building, a news agency reports. — New Delhi. Dogs maimed Town watch patrols have been increased in a quiet residential area of Philadelphia while authorities hunt for attackers who maimed at least 21 dogs with a substance so corrosive it burns flesh to the bone. -- Philadelphia. Defectors helped Children helped two defecting Czech border guards hide for three days in a haystack, Austrian police have said. Children from a small village kept the two men supplied with food, cigarettes, and bandages, before one boy told his father who called the police. The two guards, both aged 19, crossed the Morava River dividing the two countries in their uniforms. They have applied for political asylum, police said. — Vienna. J .