12 killed, 30 hurt in Ulster

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33965, 4 October 1975, Page 15

12 killed, 30 hurt in Ulster

(New Zealand Prt'S.x Assen tation— Copyright f BELFAST. October 3. I uehe people have died and at least 30 hate been injured n the latest wave of violence in Ulster.

Early today, the body of a man was found in Belfast. He had been shot several times. i Yesterday, two married sisters and a young I man were shot dead at a Fwine and spirit wareihouse near Belfast city ! centre. I Police described the attack on the four Roman Catholics, who all had bullets in their heads, as "an attempt ,at mass murder.” Four men died when their car exploded on a side road near .Coleraine, county Londonderry. It seemed that a bomb they were carrying exploded prematurely. The violence began with the bombing of a pub near

i Ballymena, in county AnI trim. In east Belfast, the manager .of the London Bar was i shot dead at his father’s home, a few yards from the pub. A 29-year-old Roman Catholic man died beneath the rubble of a photographic [shop in Antrim Road. Bellfast. after a bomb exploded A woman working in a shop opposite was hurt. A man and a woman died and a number of people [were injured in a bomb attack on a pub in Killylea, in county Down. i In Ballyginiss, a few’ miles [from Antrim, four people I were injured, one of them I seriously when a bomb exploded at McKenna’s bar. A number of other people ; were injured in widespread ishootings and bombings. I Six were hurt in a bomb and bullet attack on the i bush bar in the Low'er Falls ! district of Belfast. The bomb | demolished the pub and 1 house next door where an 88-year-old woman was trapped by her legs. A 26-year-old youth and a 30-year-old woman were ■ slightly injured when terrorists threw a bomb from a passing car into a seamen's ;club in the dock area of Belfast. In Armagh, three pohee-

men were slightly injured a thev cleared one h :!■ city’s main streets afte [bomb warnings. Three de vices exploded in three Pre testant shops. It is believed that pohi have arrested a number o I men in connection with th bombings and shootings