BELFAST BOMB
No warning given
(X.z.p. A.-Reuter—Copyright) BELFAST, June 14. A bomb exploded inside Belfast’s heavily-guarded docks yesterday while Northern Ireland was still showing horror at the blast which killed six civilians in Coleraine. The docks bomb did little damage and the only victims were seven girls taken to hospital with shock. A police officer said that the bomb was dumped on the roof of a pay office and went off without warning. A Minister in Britain's Northern Ireland office, Mr William Van Straubenzee, was dispatched to Coleraine to make a report on the tragedy which killed four women and two men while they were out shopping. Authorities blamed it on the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army (1.R.A.). According to one theory the bombers telephoned a warning but got the name of the street wrong. Coleraine, a mainly Protestant town, had been one of the quietest areas in Northern Ireland during the last four years of bloodshed.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33252, 15 June 1973, Page 9
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