6 dead, 38 hurt in bomb blast

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33817, 14 April 1975, Page 17

6 dead, 38 hurt in bomb blast

New Zealand Press Association—Copyright)

BELFAST. April 13. Terrorists fired shots through the windows of a crowded Belfast bar last

night, and threw in a bomb which killed six people and wounded 38.

At least four of the dead were women.

Responsibility for the bombing of the Strand Tavern, in the city's Roman Catholic Short St: and district. was later claimed by a ■ group which called a local

radio station and identified itself as the Protestant Young Militants. It was the heaviest !--s ~f

life in a single incident in Northern Ireland since the Irish Republican Army's Provisional wing declared a cease-fire on February 10. I Forty-eight people have died (since then in continuing sectarian conflict. The police say that some of the wounded in the ■ Strand bar blast had limbs [blown off. Rescue workers trying to [free victims from the’ rubble ■ were injured bv a wall which collapsed on them. Half of the tavern was [completely wrecked The six deaths, plus that of a man shot down by hooded gunmen some hours before, brought to 1203 the known death toll in nearly six years of strife in Ulster