Forty Dead And 60 Injured Taken From Wreckage
Received Thursday, 10 a.m. JERUSALEM, March 31, Forty lives were lost and 60 were injured Wh?n the CairoHaifa train was blown up by an electrieally-detonated land mine, near Benjamina, in Northern Palestine. The easualties were mostly Arahs. The explosion separated the engine from the remmncler ' of the train and pushed it 100 yards aloiig the track.' It also derailed four coaches and ripped up the permanent' way.
The train, which was the express from Cairo to Haifa, was running through an orange groWing belt near Benjamina settlement, 24; miles south of Haifa. Jewish so'urces said tliat Arabs fired on the Jews who went .to the scene of the explosion, forcing them to retire. Uninjure'd paksengers heiped the re'scuers carry the dead and injured | from the shattered coaches, and| laid them alongside the track'. I British miiitary ambulances tookl the injured to Haifa Hospital,' ! Jewish sources said the Sternl Gang blew up the train, ad'ding i that they believed mpst of the dead
were members of the Arab Liberation Army, The army authorities report that ; 40 British soldiers were on the train, but none have yet been ! reported among the easualties.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1948, Page 5
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