Police defuse London bomb
(N.Z.P-A. -Reuter—Copyright > LONDON. May 20. Police explosives experts last night defused a 501 b bomb left outside the headquarters of a military welfare organisation in London — hours after another bomb caused chaos at Heathrow Airport. Streets were sealed-off and some people evacuated from the area after
the police received a telephone warning of the bomb outside the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute headquarters in south London. Earlier yesterday, a car bomb extensively damaged a multi-storey car uark at Heathrow and slightly injured two women traffic wardens and an American tourist. Thousands of passengers
in a nearby termin?] escaped as plate glass windows and doors shattered with the force of the blast. The airport, one of the world's busiest, was closed for three hours. The police said that they had an open mind cn who was responsible, although minutes before the explosion a man with
an Irish accent telephoned a warning to a London news agency giving a code word used previously by Irish extremists when warning of other bomb attacks in London? The blast came two days after 28 people were killed by car bombs in Dublin and a week after the discovery of a bombs "factory" at Maidenhead, near Heathrow.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33539, 21 May 1974, Page 13
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