FAMILY KILLED
IN A SHELTER IN LONDON. MANY OTHER PEOPLE HURT, FIERCE ATTACKS BY AIR. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. While Central London was relatively quieter last night, the. outlying suburbs experienced the heaviest antiaircraft barrage thus far. The crash of firing guns shook buildings 12 miles out. Churches were again hit by bombs. One hundred and forty people who were taking refuge in the crypt of one south-east church when the walls crumbled down, came to the surface unhurt.
Incendiaries and high-explosives gave one south-west district its worst night yet. A hospital and a convent were among the sufferers. The convent students had been evacuated. Two wings were gutted. A direct hit tore away the seats of an underground trench shelter and an entire family of five was killed, and there were a few other casualties among the 100 other people in. the shelter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 301, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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