Fatal Govt centre blast
PA Wanganui An explosion early this morning blew out the front doors of the Government computer centre in Wanganui. The explosion about 12.40 a.m., is believed to have blown to pieces a person carrying an explosive device. The fire brigade, ambulances and police were quickly on the scene. The foyer of the computer building, Wairere House, was destroyed. Seven staff were believed to have been in the building at the time of the blast.
Security guards usually stationed in the foyer of the building, were not injured, according to a security spokesman, and none of the computer centre staff is believed to have been injured. The sevep employees inside the building only began their shift about 90 minutes before the blast. Most were working on the first and second floors of the threestorey building and were evacuated through a back exit.
A man working in the first floor said: “All I heard was a terrific bang. We all went out the back way.”
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Press, 18 November 1982, Page 1
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