2 Israeli officers killed by land mine near Beirut

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

March 17, 1983

Tel Aviv

Two Israeli Army officers were killed when their vehicle hit a land mine near Beirut on the road to Damascus, an Israeli Army spokesman said. Earlier, Lebanese sources in Beirut said a rocket-propelled grenade had destroyed an Israeli car in the same area.