EXPLOSION IN HAIFA
POLICE STATION DEMOLISHED Rec. 11 p.m. JERUSALEM, Sept. 29. f Perhaps six British and Arab policemen were killed and JO people injured this morning when an explosion virtually demolished the police station at Haifa, states an official report. A lorry drove to the edge of a barbed-wire barricade, where the occupants of the vehicle lowered a barrel of explosives and rolled it into the perimeter. The Associated Press correspondent says that the explosion shattered the windows of five blocks of Kingsway. in which the police station was situated. Eye-witness reports state that a bus carrying 40 to 50 passengers was passing the station as the blast occurred. Many passengers were, injured. The explosion killed an Arab guard who gave the alarm, and falling debris 50 yards away killed an Arab coffee vendor. Power and telephones were cut off, and a water main was broken. Rescue workers are digging the ruins for the dead and injured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26579, 30 September 1947, Page 5
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