  We report the discovery of a fairly bright transient during observations with
the Wide Field Cameras on board the BeppoSAX satellite in September 1996. It
was detected at a peak intensity of 0.1 Crab (2 to 10 keV) and lasted between 6
and 40 days above a detection threshold of 2 mCrab. Two very bright type I
X-ray bursts were detected from this transient in the same observations. These
almost certainly identify this X-ray transient as a low-mass X-ray binary with
a neutron star as compact component. The double-peaked time history of both
bursts at high energies suggests a peak luminosity close to the Eddington
limit. Assuming this to be true implies a distance to this object of 4 kpc.
