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13 Injured in Gaza Training Site Blast

   VOA News 20 October 2010
   A  Palestinian  schoolboy injured in the blast receives treatment at a
   hospital in the southern Gaza strip town of Rafah, 20 Oct 2010

Photo: AP

   A  Palestinian  schoolboy injured in the blast receives treatment at a
   hospital in the southern Gaza strip town of Rafah, 20 Oct 2010

   Leaders  of the Palestinian militant group Hamas say five children and
   three women were among 13 injured after a blast at a Hamas base in the
   Gaza Strip. Â
   The  powerful  explosion  Wednesday ripped through the Hamas al-Qassam
   Brigades military training facility in the southern Gaza Strip. Â
   In  a statement, Hamas did not give a cause for the blast. The Israeli
   military says it was not involved.
   The blast shook through the densely crowded Tel As-Sultan neighborhood
   in Rafah. Hamas said the injured were hit by flying glass shrapnel.
   The  Gaza-based  Palestinian  Center  for  Human Rights has repeatedly
   called  on  the  territory's  Hamas  rulers  not  to  store  explosive
   materials  in civilian areas. A weapons explosion in August wounded 58
   people and destroyed seven houses.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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