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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 401-96
June 28, 1996

AIR FORCE MEMBERS KILLED IN BOMBING IDENTIFIED (RELEASE #5)

The Department of the Air Force confirmed the hometowns of two of the previously announced victims in Tuesday's bombing. Staff Sgt. Daniel B. Cafourek, hometown Watertown, S.D., and Senior Airman Earl F. Cartrette, Jr., hometown Sellersburg, Ind., were both assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Nineteen Air Force members were killed and 64 were hospitalized in the terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers near King Abdul Aziz Air Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.