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Three soldiers killed on border

A gun battle involving an Egyptian police officer in southern Israel next to the Egyptian border left three Israeli soldiers dead yesterday, the Israeli army said. A spokesperson said the fighting began overnight when soldiers thwarted a drug-smuggling attempt. He said that, several hours later, two soldiers in a guard post were shot and killed. It was a rare instance of deadly violence along the frontier – the first for more than a decade. The shooting triggered a manhunt in which a third soldier and the “assailant” were killed, the Israeli army said.

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