Injured man identified
GV. Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. March 7. The British police, seeking flues to the latest wave of >ombings in London, said today that they had finally identified a mysterious young Irishman who has been lying maimed in hospital since a bomb went off under him in a London street last Monday.
The police said that the young man, whose arm was blown off and who has had a leg amputated, may have been planting one of the I bombs which are believed to be part of a campaign by Irish Republican Army guerrillas on the British mainland. | He was named as Patrick [Hackett, aged about 35, from [Tipperary. The police said [that he had been living recently in a shabby room in Clapham in which the police found 86 sticks of explosives and other bomb-making equipment. ,
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34097, 8 March 1976, Page 17
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