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TEL AVIV, July 17—Two Palestinian suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a convenience store on a busy pedestrian walkway in an immigrant neighborhood of Tel Aviv tonight, killing themselves and three other people. The bombings, which also injured 40, marked the second Palestinian attack against Israeli civilians in two days after a hiatus of nearly a month. The bodies of the bombers, one clad in a red shirt, the other wearing blue, were found about 30 yards apart, according to Israeli police. Witnesses said the first bomber exploded himself near tables where customers were drinking beer and eating nuts. Some of the panicked victims, in trying to escape, raced headlong toward the accomplice, who then detonated his bomb. “I was walking by the store with my daughter,” said Benita Ustaris, 24, a housekeeper who moved from Bolivia four years ago. “There was an explosion, the first one. And then from the 3 Civilians Die in Tel Aviv Bombing