Bomb blasts in Ulster
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BELFAST, May 6. Bombs exploded in Belfast and other Lister cities yesterday, leaving several injured and causing heavy damage.
In Belfast a British soldier was seriously injured in a booby-trap explosion. At Dungannon in County Tyrone, a gunman shot and seriously injured a Roman Catholic youth. Police said a civilian died, apparently of a heart attack, after two men planted a bomb in a residential Belfast street. The blast wrecked an
abandoned community building and private homes. Police say at least 1008 people have been killed in five years of violence in Ulster.
Belfast was the target of three bomb blasts in the early morning. In addition to the booby-trap set off by a British Army patrol and the community-centre explosion, a hijacked panel truck laden with explosives blew up outside a restaurant.
No-one was injured, police said, because a warning was given before the bomb exploded. •
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33527, 7 May 1974, Page 17
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