Prison guards killed in Israel
Published:Thursday | December 2, 2010 | 3:55 PM
About 40 prison guards have died after being trapped in a forest fire that had been raging out of control in northern Israel.
Police say the guards were on a bus which was caught in the inferno, in the Carmel Mountains near the city of Haifa.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people, many of them prison inmates, have been evacuated from the area.
No inmates were reported injured.
The Israeli prison service says the bus was carrying guards on their way to help in rescue activities at the nearby Damon Prison.
Prison service spokesman Yaron Zamir says the men had not worked at the prison but had raced to the area from central Israel to assist in the rescue.