moshes
6/19/2011 10:07:00 AM
yzk <yaaqovk@gmail.com> writes:
> "Tilly" <femail1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> JERUSALEM - Police say a large explosion has rocked the coastal
>> Israeli city of Netanya, killing three and wounding more than 30.
>> The explosion took place shortly after midnight Friday.
>>
>> Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the blast appeared to be a
>> result of a gas cylinder exploding in a residential building.
>> Many people use tanks of gas for cooking fuel.
>>
>> He said police were still investigating the explosion to "confirm
>> that it wasn't the result of a terrorism incident."
>>
>> Netanya has been struck before by suicide bombers and other
>> militant attacks. But the late hour of the explosion and the
>> location appeared to indicate that it was an accident.
>
> The last I heard there were 4 dead.
That's what I heard.
> A metal thief cut the gas line sometime before the explosion, and
> gas company negligence is being looked into
>(since they were called, and said everything was okay - presumably
> after reconnecting the line).
>
> Another angle, since discounted, was an organized crime effort,
> since the head(?) of the Aboutbul(sp?) crime family has
> stores in that building.
I hadn't heard that angle. Why was it discounted?
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